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Netherside Hall
Features include a kitchen garden, though no internal features have been retained. There is an unusual semi-sunken track around the kitchen garden. Most of the rest of the grounds are planted with forest trees, though there are also the remains of a rockery on the bank opposite the south-west front of the house.
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