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After a talk in the barns with the guide there’s time
to enjoy the Tudor walled garden of a manor house
long gone. There’s something very seductive about
a walled garden and this one is very romantic with
an arbour planted with woodbine, roses and oxlips to
evoke the spirit of Shakepeare’s Midsummer Nights
Dream. Elsewhere plants are grouped by use: for
medicine, the kitchen and the dyer. Plus there’s a
potager, (a Tudor veg patch), Knot Garden, tiny
orchard and nuttery and a nosegay garden full of
fragrant plants grown for their perfume. In the middle
of it all, at the centre of the garden is an unusual brick
fountain, on which four spouts take the form of the
green man, the spirit of vegetation frequently found
in mediaeval carvings. It’s not the only reminder of
the old ways, over in the barns you’ll have seen the
Horkey Bough, a green oak bough traditionally laid
on top of the last wagon of the annual harvest.
When it’s time for refreshment you can retire to the
café on site to buy tea and cakes before returning to
the coach to begin the journey home at 4.45pm.
This is a good day for groups with older members as
the walking is very gentle - very little in the morning
and you can see from the aerial shot of Cressing
Temple below that it is a nice and compact site.
This tour is available throughout 2013 daily until the
end of September and it will be available in 2014,
daily from March. Coach Mileage is 45 and the
walking content rates a 1.5 on our Olympic running
track scale meaning that the most you’d have to walk
is 600 metres (660 yards). Of course if you want to
walk more at lunchtime or at the barns you can.
Adults & Seniors: £26.50
inc. 2 course carvery with coffee.