page_title: Tatton Park Gardens
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tatton Park Gardens / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The "Temple"
context_page_description: Tatton Park Gardens consist of formal and informal gardens in Tatton Park to the south of Tatton Hall, Cheshire, England. Included in the gardens are an Italian garden, a walled garden, a rose garden, and the Japanese garden. The buildings in the garden are the Conservatory, the Fernery and the Showhouse. The gardens are owned by the National Trust and administered by Cheshire East Council. They are on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens and have been designated at Grade II*. The gardens are open to the public at advertised times.
context_section_description: The first formal gardens were created around the early 18th-century house and consisted of a walled garden to the south of the house, a formal semicircular pond to its north and formal lines of trees to the east and west.  Later Samuel Wyatt set out an avenue of beeches to the south, which is now the Broad Walk.  An arboretum was created during the 18th century and additions have been made to it since. The earliest reference to the arboretum is in 1795 when between five and ten species were present.  The first formal garden to be created for the present house was Charlotte's Garden, designed by Lewis William Wyatt in 1814.  Lewis also designed the sandstone Conservatory, which was originally joined to the house by a glass passageway.  This was also known as the Orangery because for a time it was used for growing oranges.  In the 1830s, a copy of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens was placed at the end of the Broad Walk.  Gardens were established along the sides of the Broad Walk, including the Leech Pool and the area containing the Golden Brook.
  In 1847, the terraces to the south of the house were laid out as an Italian Garden by Edward Milner to a design by Joseph Paxton.  Later in the century, in 1883, Wilbraham Egerton added the stone balustrade. The statue of Neptune, which came from Venice, was added in 1920.  Over the years changes have been made to this garden, and it was restored to its original design in 1986. In 1859, the Fernery had been built to a design by George Stokes, Paxton's assistant and son-in-law, to the west of the Conservatory to house tree ferns from New Zealand. The Fernery was seen in the TV miniseries Brideshead Revisited.
  In 1910, inspired by a visit to the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition in London, Alan de Tatton created the Japanese Garden.  Artefacts within the garden, including the Shinto shrine, are believed to have been brought from Japan for the construction of the garden. In 1913, Alan de Tatton laid out the Rose Garden for his wife which contained a pool for bathing.  Maintenance work in this garden had to be completed by 10.00 am. to allow Lady Egerton to enjoy it without being disturbed.  Later in the 20th century, Maurice Egerton built the African Hut to the east of the Broad Walk as an association with his visits to Africa.  He also planted large numbers of azaleas and rhododendrons.  By the end of the 20th century, the Japanese Garden had become overgrown and it was restored in 2001.  Since then the kitchen garden has been restored and the head gardener is planning to construct a new garden to reflect garden design in the 20th and 21st centuries.
caption: Monument
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