Introduction
Previous features of the garden remains on the site of Hamerton Manor House include ponds, orchards, a mount, terraces, walks, flower beds and a canal.
Sale particulars of 1669-83 state to the east of the sloping garden and ‘several yards behind it, are ponds of water, with a great garden, and other lesser gardens and faire orchards well planted with good fruit, consisting of about 10 acres (four hectares)’.
The site consists of a broad rectangular area with a large mount, and terraces with walks and flower beds, all sloping away to a long ‘L’ shaped canal. To the east lies a trapezoidal area bounded by a low bank, probably a water garden with an island in the centre of a marshy area.
- History
To the south of the present Rectory, which was built in 1851 on the site of Hamerton Manor House, are the remains of an elaborate garden.
- Features & Designations
Features
- Pond
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- Orchard
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- Flower Bed
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- Mount
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- Garden Terrace
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- Canal
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- Walk
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- Island
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- Manor House (featured building)
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- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Survival
Lost
Civil Parish
Hamerton
- References
Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust