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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 ...
Buckland Monachorum is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England, situated on the River Tavy, about 10 miles north of Plymouth. In 2006 the neighbourhood had an estimated 1,511 residents and 654 dwellings. The electoral ward of the same name gave a population of 3,380 at the 2011 census. [1]
Buckland Abbey was founded as a Cistercian abbey in 1278 [2] by Amicia, Countess of Devon and was a daughter house of Quarr Abbey, on the Isle of Wight. The abbey of Quarr had close connections with the family, having been founded by Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon . [ 3 ]
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.
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
The building overlooks a landscaped park, [1] which includes gardens, a cricket ground and a 150-acre (61 ha) deer park. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Buckland House is a Grade II* listed building . [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Nikolaus Pevsner described it as "the most splendid Georgian house in the Country", [ 4 ] It is rumoured that a ghost of a white lady haunts the house.
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 ...
Milton Combe is a village in Devon approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) from Yelverton and 8 mi (13 km) from the city of Plymouth. [1] [2] The name Milton Combe is derived from the village's historic name, first mentioned in 1249, of 'Mile Cumbe' literally meaning 'Middle Valley'. The Post Office gave the village its current name in 1890, to distinguish ...