Bridge End Gardens were built part on fields and previous garden on the edge of Saffron Walden and covers an area of 2.7 hectares (7 acres).[2][3] The area was set out as gardens from around 1828 by Atkinson Francis Gibson and his wife Elizabeth.[2] From 1838, his son Francis Gibson – who, as a Quaker, was interested in horticulture [3] and had also completed a garden design for his sister – began creating a new garden with the help of a local nurseryman William Chater (breeder of Chater Hollyhocks). [4][5] Gibson considered the Dutch Garden to be of utmost importance, and as such should be visible to visitors as they enter. [3]The hedge maze (based upon the layout of the maze at Hampton Court Palace) was planted around 1870, and restored in 1984 with 11,000 yew seedlings, [5] by which stage the garden was under the management of a local agent and was used as a venue for shows by the Saffron Walden horticultural society.

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Samwise

August 15, 2019

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