Monument record 1682/3/3 - The Wilderness, Kirby Hall

{1} About a 150 years later an additional map(c. 1700), now at Deene Hall, shows the subsequent enlargement of the gardens to the south where their formal arrangement terminated in the Wilderness which was created at the end of the seventeenth century.

{3} By 1666 the gardens may have been extended south of Kirby Brook and an orchard, while in 1689-92 the creation of the Wilderness up the valley slope to the south of the orchard almost doubled the length of the gardens. A century later Bridges (1791, 314) saw in the Wilderness 'almost the whole variety of English trees and ranged in an elegant order'.

<1> Dix B.; Soden I.; Hylton T., 1995, Kirby Hall and Its Gardens: Excavations in 1987-1994, p.299 (unchecked) (Report). SNN74020.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.60 (Series). SNN77380.

<3> English Heritage, 1984, Register of Parks & Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (1984, Northamptonshire), (unchecked) (Report). SNN46781.

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Aug 28 2014 5:02PM