Introduction
Features of Fordham Abbey include drives, pleasure grounds, an orchard, a walled kitchen garden and various fruit houses.
Spacious lawns run down to the river Snail. The lawns are shaded by beautiful specimen trees, shrubs and timber trees. There is a walled kitchen garden, lean-to vineries, a peach house and a tomato house. There is also a cucumber house, melon house, potato house and a potting and tool shed.
Other features of the gardens include lawns, mature trees, a pond, an orchard, with wild flowers, shrubs, roses and mixed borders. There is also a Redwood avenue.
- History
Fordham Abbey was created in the 13th century. However the current house was built in 1790. The house was built in the Georgian style.
Period
- 18th Century
- Late 18th Century
- Features & Designations
Features
- Orchard
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- Tree Belt
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- Vinery
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- Garden Wall
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- Avenue
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- Manor House (featured building)
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- Drive
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- Ornamental Pond
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- Rose Border
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- Key Information
Type
Estate
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Period
18th Century
Survival
Extant
Civil Parish
Fordham
- References
Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust