5315 x 4010 px | 45 x 34 cm | 17,7 x 13,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
17 juin 1998
Lieu:
Abbots Ripton Hall, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
The Abbots Ripton Estate has grown from 2, 000 acres, originally purchased in 1737 by Coulson Fellowes, and now totals some 5, 700 acres. The first member of the Fellowes family to live at Abbots Ripton Hall was another Coulson Fellowes - grandfather of the present Lord De Ramsey. During WWI the hall was converted into a hospital and administered by Lord de Ramsey's great-grandmother, daughter of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill. When the Lord De Ramsey's father took up residence in the hall in 1937, the gardens contained many fine old trees - an ideal framework for his parents to build up the gardens to the eight acres seen today. Humphrey Waterfield, in the 1950's, designed the Rose circle and Grey Border and added rare trees to the arboretum. Other plantings were undertaken by Lanning Roper and Jim Russell. Peter Foster, surveyor to Westminster Abbey, designed the architectural features including the Gothic Trellis and Constable Pavilion.
