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'Lost' garden to be restored
The 'lost' garden of Elford Hall, near Lichfield, Staffordshire is to be restored after it received a £248,400 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The walled kitchen garden and gardeners cottage are all that remain of the Georgian Elford Hall estate, built in approximately 1825 by Henry Bowes, Earl of Berkshire and Suffolk. Remaining in the family until 1936, the hall, garden and outbuildings were then donated to Birmingham City Council as a gift for local residents. After falling into disrepair the hall was demolished in the 1960s and now the remaining garden wall and associated outbuildings are Grade II listed. The 12ft high wall, measuring 350ft by 300ft, encloses a space that has been largely neglected for the past 50 years and once housed half a mile of fruit trees. The Elford Hall Gardens Management Committee, a voluntary community organisation formed in 2007 by local people, will now be able to start work restoring it.
The HLF funded project to restore the walled garden is part of a larger initiative that will see the former head gardener's cottage restored to provide space for a coffee shop, toilets and a classroom. The Victorian gardens, herbaceous borders and orchard will be re-created, and allotments - a feature of the original gardens - will also be established. A bowling green and tennis courts will also be constructed within the garden walls, original structure and pathways restored, and routes made accessible to picnicking areas along the adjacent River Tame.
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