4380 x 3456 px | 37,1 x 29,3 cm | 14,6 x 11,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1 octobre 2015
Lieu:
Hampton Court, Herefordshire, England, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
The Hampton Court Estate has a rich and fascinating history dating back to the 15th Century. It was sketched and painted by William Turner.There is a Victorian walled ornamental kitchen garden growing apple and pear espaliers and orchard fruit trees. The crab apples Malus ‘John Downie’ fill the South garden with their delicate fragrance on warm sunny days. Original Victorian garden walls enclose stunning flower gardens divided by canals, island pavilions and pleached avenues. The kitchen garden is an ornamental garden of fruit and vegetables managed organically, supplying produce to the Orangery restaurant for its seasonal menu. There is a maze of a thousand yews with a gothic tower at its centre offering a panoramic view of the gardens. A tunnel that leads to a waterfall in the sunken garden with a cascade and stepping stones. Beautiful herbaceous borders stretch out from a one hundred and fifty year old wisteria tunnel leading to vast lawns and ancient trees beside the castle. Beyond the lawns are riverside and woodland walks. The estate was originally formed by the merging of the manors of Hampton Richard and Hampton Mappenor. It was granted by Henry IV to Sir Rowland Lenthall at the time of his marriage to Margaret Fitzalan, daughter of the Earl of Arundel and a cousin of the King. Lenthall built the original quadrangular manor house in 1427, twelve years after his knighthood at the battle of Agincourt. In 1434 he was granted a licence to crenellate the house by Henry VI. Sir Rowland was succeeded by his daughter who married the Baron of Burford and it was their grandson who sold Hampton Court to Sir Humphrey Coningsby in 1510. Hampton Court remained in the Coningsby family, a prominent noble Herefordshire family, until the early 19th Century when the estate was purchased by Richard Arkwright, the son of the famous inventor. Richard Arkwright's son, John, then comissioned the remodelling of the house in the 1830's and 40's. The Arkwrights lived there until 1912
