Introduction
Features of The Old Rectory includes a ha-ha, a pool and a walled garden.
To the north, the rectory overlooks a wide lawn studded with a few young trees, towards the village church and the spring of the River Snail rising in a pool. To the south the garden rises gently to grazed pastures with a ha-ha. Here there are herbaceous and shrub borders either side of the rectory and the whole is dominated by a mature beech.
To the south west is a walled garden with overgrown evergreen oaks and yews-a wilderness-with meandering paths. This garden is possibly the late-17th-century garden associated with the manor house, which stood immediately to the west of the Old Rectory.
- History
Originally an early-18th-century rectory, including two separate medieval buildings, the Old Rectory is flanked by two-storey wings.
- Features & Designations
Features
- Garden Wall
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- Path
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- Lawn
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- Ha-ha
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- Rectory (featured building)
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- Herbaceous Border
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- Shrub Border
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- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Religious Ritual And Funerary
Survival
Extant
Civil Parish
Snailwell
- References
Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust