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The Garden House is an open garden located in Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England. The first house built in 1305 was intended to be a home for the vicars of the civil parish . The gardens are now open to the public and are home to a number of historical features, including the ruins of the old vicarage , a 14th-century barn , and a 17th-century ...
Near to Buckland Monachorum is Buckland Abbey, home of Sir Francis Drake during the Elizabethan era. The village is the site of St Andrew's , a 12th-century church with a Saxon baptismal font and the tombs of the Drake family and Lord Heathfield , the defender of Gibraltar , many historic buildings, and a complex of interesting gardens, known ...
Yelverton is a large village on the south-western edge of Dartmoor, Devon, in England. [1] It is in the civil parish of Buckland Monachorum. [2] According to the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,858, which was slightly more than the 1,810 recorded at the 2011 census.
Chelsea Physic Garden; Chiswick House; Hall Place and Gardens, London Borough of Bexley; Hampton Court; The Hill Garden and Pergola, London Borough of Camden; Holland Park, including The Kyoto Garden; Kensington Gardens (and Hyde Park) Gardens of Kenwood House (on Hampstead Heath) Kew Gardens, also listed under Surrey below; St James's Park
Buckland Abbey, front Buckland Abbey, rear view. Buckland Abbey is a Grade I listed [1] 700-year-old house in Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, England, noted for its connection with Sir Richard Grenville the Younger and Sir Francis Drake. It is owned by the National Trust.
Garden house may refer to: a summer house or small building in a garden; a house built under the provision of special legislation (usu. in Scandinavia), for instance a Friggebod; The Garden House, an open garden near Buckland Monachorum, Devon, UK; Garden House School, in Chelsea, London, England
Collingwood Ingram sent loads of plants to Rosemoor from his own garden in Benenden, Kent. This was the start of a marvellous collection. In 1960 serious development of the garden started. Soon there were other mentors such as Lionel Fortescue (The Garden House at Buckland Monachorum [12]), the Heathcoat-Amory family of Knightshayes Court and ...
Risdon: "The manor of Buckland was bought by one Grimes, of London, who built a house upon the same, which descends to his posterity, and is now inherited by that name". [14] Meavy was purchased by Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet (1642–1718), of Buckland Abbey in the parish of Buckland Monachorum , who sometimes resided at the manor house west ...