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Mr. Ford's Topiary, Shudy Camps

Introduction

Features include a topiary and fir trees.

To the west of the public footpath from Shudy Camps to Camps Hall where it crosses the road between Bartlow and Castle Camps is Mr. Charles Ford's roadside topiary. After the Second World War, Mr. Ford patiently waited every morning for the bus to take him to work in Saffron Walden. For more then 5 years he trimmed the hawthorn hedge with his penknife into the topiary that remains today. Framing the topiary are two fir trees planted on the road verge, but most of the field boundary hedge has been removed leaving only the length of Mr. Ford's topiary.
Key Information

Type

Garden

Purpose

Ornamental

Survival

Extant

Civil Parish

Shudy Camps

References

Contributors

  • Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust