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Walled garden

Much of the storyline of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's story The Secret Garden revolves around a walled garden which has been locked for ten years.



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Attingham Park

There are also twelve Grade II listed structures including the retaining walls of the estate, the bee house, the ice house, the walled garden, the ha-ha, which can be seen in the front of the mansion, and the Home Farm.

East Ness

Ness Hall in East Ness has a large walled garden which has been restored by Cynthia Murray Wells and subsequently Mary Murray Wells assisted by Harriette Murray Wells (daughter of John Skeffington, 14th Viscount Massereene).

Great Maytham Hall

Its author, Frances Hodgson Burnett, lived at Great Maytham Hall from 1898 to 1907, where she found the old walled garden dating from 1721 sadly overgrown and neglected.

Jeppe Hein

At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned an "artlandish" folly in a scale appropriate for a five-acre walled garden.

Longstock Park

The nursery is set in and around a brick and flint walled garden, and is home to the NCCPG National Collections of Buddleja and Clematis viticella, and the Gilchrist Collection of Penstemons.

Lullingstone Castle

The walled garden - previously a herb garden designed by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde - has recently been converted into the World Garden of Plants by the Castle's current heir (and 20th generation of the Hart Dyke's), plant hunter Tom Hart Dyke.

May Tennant

She and her husband bought and rebuilt a country house, Great Maytham, at Rolvenden, Kent, a property whose old walled garden had earlier been the inspiration for The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Vale of Pickering

Nunnington Hall, 17th century manor House with a sheltered walled garden on the banks of the River Rye.

William Pikes

This took place in a back close, 'in the field by the town of Islington', the chosen place being a walled garden so that they would not be discovered.