Wootton Hall Gardens
Visit the Lost Garden of Wootton Hall
Just a short walk away from The Duncombe Arms, this valley garden full amazing Ornamental trees set against the Pangea Gritstone outcrops has been restored over the last twenty years. The trees introduced by the Victorian Plant Hunters such as Fortune,Veitch, Hooker, Forrest and Lobb to name a few have been introduced to the garden which was lost in time for nearly a hundred years.
History
The History of Wootton Hall dates to 1740 when it was in the ownership of the Bromley-Davenport Family. In that time the French Philosopher Jean Jacque Rousseau who gave to the world ‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity’, lived at the hall and wrote ‘Confessions ‘in 1766.
During the latter part of the 19th Century there was an extensive programme to create a spectacular Woodland garden. Following the First World War which devastated a generation and caused severe financial hardship, many gardens were reduced in size or lost forever. Wootton like the lost garden of Heligan, was lost!
Wootton is a twelve acre ericaceous garden and showcases a huge variety of Ornamental Trees, rhododendrons, Magnolias and Cornus Kousa.
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