Can’t believe
its been a year since we first discovered Randwick Wap and here we are again.
It doesn’t get any more quintessentially rural England than this. Parade and
dunking of the ‘mayor’ and ‘wap queen’, rolling of the cheeses, country fair
and, of course, Morris Dancing.
Laskett
Gardens
Created by
Sir Roy Strong and his wife, designer Julia Trvelyan Oman in the 70’s, its
major influences are Italian renaissance and formal Tudor/Stuart tradition.
During the war the house was used as the Canadian High Commission
The garden,
containing many inter connecting garden rooms, has a number monuments and
decorative features
Plantings
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| and, of course, tea n cakes |
And topiary
Whitfield
House and Gardens
Whitfield
lies at the centre of the former hunting forest of Treville, part of the Royal
Forest of Haywood. Records of the area date back to the C12.
Amongst its
impressive features – Camellia glass house
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| lemons for the G&T |
Pinetum with
some impressive sequoias
The now
disused canal has been transformed into a number of small fishing lakes. The
lower lake had a folly castle ruin built on its small island.
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| nesting swans |
and wonderful woodland walks
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