Hardwick Hall
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About the Hardwick Hall
Only walls and gazebos remain of Bess of Hardwick's late 16th-century garden. The present layout of South Garden dates from the 1870s: grass alleys flanked by yew and hornbeam hedges planted by Lady Louisa Egerton, daughter of the 7th Duke of Devonshire, divide the garden into quadrants. Orchards, lawns, nuttery and herb garden (culinary, medicinal and dye-plants) occupy these four sections, conveying the spirit of an Elizabethan garden. West Courtyard laid out c.1920 by Blanche, daughter of the 9th Duke. Her mother, the Duchess Evelyn sank the pond in the East Court to provide water for fire-fighting. She also planted the double avenue called "The Wineglass" that closes the eastern vista. Lead statues in yew alcoves, holly domes to the western entrance to the herb garden, grass walks, mulberry avenue. Garden history exhibition in the south-east gazebo shows the garden's development over 400 years.
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Hardwick Hall
Doe Lea
Chesterfield
Derbyshire S44 5QJ United Kingdom
Telephone: 07786661602
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URL: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hardwick/
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