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Harcourt Arboretum is an arboretum owned and run by the University of Oxford.It is a satellite of the university's botanic garden in the city of Oxford, England.The arboretum itself is located six miles (ten kilometres) south of Oxford on the A4074 road, near the village of Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire, [1] and comprises some 150 acres (60 hectares). [2]
The Arboretum d'Harcourt (11 hectares) is a historic arboretum located on the grounds of the 14th-century Château d'Harcourt in Harcourt, Eure, Normandy, France. The arboretum is one of the oldest in France, dating to 1802 when Louis-Gervais Delamare acquired the castle and its grounds. He introduced pine cultivation on 200 hectares.
First laid out in 1946, this planting is a classic example of the traditional English herbaceous border. Unlike other areas of the Garden, this border relies entirely on herbaceous perennials. These die back to a rootstock each winter before bursting back into life again in spring and flowering through the summer.
The Château d'Harcourt, situated in the commune of Harcourt in the Eure department of France, is the cradle of the Harcourt family. The castle is one of the best preserved castles in the country and contains the oldest arboretum in France.
Just southeast of Lower Farm, about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) northwest of the present Nuneham Courtenay village, is the site of a former Romano-British pottery kiln.The kiln was about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) west of the Roman road that linked the Roman towns at Dorchester on Thames and Alchester.
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The English Garden at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens. Designed by Warren H. Manning, this garden was redesigned by Ellen Biddle Shipman in the late 1920s, and restored in the early 1990s. It is one of the few restored Shipman gardens open to the public in the United States.
House of Harcourt, a British and French noble house; Collège d'Harcourt, in Paris, renamed the Lycée Saint-Louis in 1820; Harcourt House, Edmonton, an art gallery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Harcourt House, London, Cavendish Square, London, a building; USS Harcourt (1864), a Union Navy tugboat in the American Civil War