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Thorneycroft, Thorney

Introduction

Features of Thorneycroft include rare examples of Victorian planting schemes within a small bounded garden.

This Victorian house to the east of the road going south to Whittlesey from the village has a small garden bounded by a raised bank and ditches sympathetically planted with evergreens, box hedging, conifers, laurels and yews. The road frontage is compactly planted under dense tree canopy. This is a rare example of a garden stocked with Victorian favourites available during the last century. Here is a good impression of what so many gardens during the last century must have looked like before perennial and ground cover plants became the vogue.
History

Period

  • Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
  • Victorian (1837-1901)
Features & Designations

Features

  • Hedge
  • Earliest Date:
  • Latest Date:
  • House (featured building)
  • Earliest Date:
  • Latest Date:
  • Planting
  • Gardens
Key Information

Type

Garden

Purpose

Ornamental

Principal Building

Domestic / Residential

Period

Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)

Survival

Extant

Civil Parish

Thorney

References

Contributors

  • Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust

  • Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust