Introduction
Features of Tetworth Hall include a woodland walk, lawns, a grass terrace, brick-edged flower beds and a vegetable garden.
Today the woodland walk has been developed with fine collections of rhododendrons, azaleas and other acid soil loving plants. Groups of oak and sweet chestnuts form a shade canopy over large pools and a bog garden. Spectacular clumps of Himalayan lilies over 10 feet high follow the rhododendrons.
The west lawn has rose beds and diamond brick-edged beds planted with cotton lavender, with a wide herbaceous border to the north. A central flight of steps leads down from the lawn to a grass terrace. There are plantings of cornus and magnolia species in rough grass beyond and also a vegetable garden. Fine views overlook the Bedfordshire countryside.
- History
Tetworth Hall is an early-18th-century red brick Queen Anne house in parkland on a sandy ridge. The house was built in 1710 for John Pedley, MP (died 1722), with late-18th century additions when the park, formal gardens and woodland walk were laid out.
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Features
- Walk
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- Garden Terrace
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- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
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Civil Parish
Tetworth
- References
Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust