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| Through a small gate east of the top lawn one
enters the walled garden, a huge enclosed area, now three quarters
pasture. The remaining cultivated area still retains the charm
of a carefully nurtured ornamental space but it is predominantly
a working and productive vegetable garden providing fruit, vegetables
and herbs for the kitchen much of the year round. The huge walls
that enclose the walled garden were built by the Pynes under
the famine relief schemes in the early half of the 19th century
- the carved capstone adorning the arch that stood at the end
of a once much longer beech hedge dates the construction at
1828. |
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