Introduction
Features of Woodcroft Castle include sweeping lawns, a rose garden and a shelter belt of trees along the approach roads.
The grounds include sweeping lawns and mature trees in front of the castle. To the rear is a small rose garden. The site is now surrounded by a shelter belt of trees along the approach roads, and the grounds are somewhat unkempt but secluded. John Clare, who lived nearby at Helpston, worked as a gardener at Woodcroft Castle but became ‘tired of wading thro' the moat each day so left'.
- History
Situated on the remote fenlands north-west of Peterborough are the important remains of a moated 13th-century castle with a later Elizabethan range.
- Features & Designations
Features
- Lawn
- Rose Garden
- Shelter Belt
- Castle (featured building)
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- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Survival
Extant
Civil Parish
Etton
- References
Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust