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A garden feature in the grounds of Wentworth Woodhouse, re-using a limestone doorway dating from about 1630. The feature is set in an overgrown earth mound, it has two storeys, and contains a curved tunnel leading to a circular vaulted chamber with a domed roof, and spiral steps leading to an upper landing.
King George V and Queen Mary visited south Yorkshire from 8 to 12 July 1912 and stayed at Wentworth Woodhouse for four days. The house party consisted of a large number of guests, including: Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang, the then-Archbishop of York; the Earl of Harewood and his Countess; the Marchioness of Londonderry; the Marquess of Zetland and Lady Zetland; the Earl of Scarborough and Lady ...
Stainborough is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The parish contains 33 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, eight are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the former ...
In the 1970s, three rose garden areas were created by James Russell. A garden centre was created at the west end of the garden in the 1990s, and much of the soil in the Sundial and Venus areas of the garden was replaced, allowing them to be planted with roses. In 2006, an ornamental vegetable garden area was added. [1]
Wentworth is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England.. In the 2001 Census the parish had a population of 1,223, [2] increasing to 1,478 at the 2011 Census.
Wentworth Castle: Horace Walpole found the south front (finished 1764) evinced "the most perfect taste in architecture". Wentworth Castle is a grade-I listed country house, the former seat of the Earls of Strafford, at Stainborough, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.
With Wentworth Woodhouse the principal seat of the family, the fifth Earl left Milton to his younger son, George Wentworth-FitzWilliam, in 1857. George lived at Milton until after 1912 [dubious – discuss] and is thought to have commissioned Harold Peto to produce plans for a garden within one of the 18th century walled enclosures.
Movable blocks to control the movement of hot air in the heated wall at Eglinton Country Park. A number of walled gardens in Britain have a hot wall or fruit wall, a hollow wall with a central cavity, or openings in the wall on the side facing towards the garden, so that fires could be lit inside the wall to provide additional heat to protect the fruit growing against the wall.