page_title: Tatton Park
section_title: Gardens
hierarchical_section_title: Tatton Park / Gardens
caption_attribution_description: English: Japanese Garden, Tatton Park
context_page_description: Tatton Park is an historic estate in Cheshire, England, north of the town of Knutsford. It contains a mansion, Tatton Hall, a medieval manor house, Tatton Old Hall, Tatton Park Gardens, a farm and a deer park of 2,000 acres. It is a popular visitor attraction and hosts over a hundred events annually. The estate is owned by the National Trust, who administer it jointly with Cheshire East Council. Since 1999, it has hosted North West England's annual Royal Horticultural Society flower show.
context_section_description: The gardens lie to the south of the hall and consist of formal and more natural gardens.  Immediately to the southeast of the hall is the Italian Garden, a formal garden on two terraces, containing a statue of Neptune as its centrepiece.  This garden was designed by Joseph Paxton and laid out by Edward Milner in 1847.  After modifications over the years it was restored to its original design in 1986.  The present public entrance to the gardens from the stable yard leads into the Walled Garden which contains various buildings, including glasshouses. This garden was restored in the 2000s, and grows varieties of fruit and vegetables which were grown at Tatton in the Edwardian era.  To the east of the Kitchen Garden are the Conservatory (previously often known as the Orangery), the Fernery and the Showhouse.
  
  Beyond the Kitchen Garden are the "Pleasure Gardens" which were used for the family's enjoyment rather than for utility.  These lie on each side of the Broad Walk, which stretches towards the south, ending in the Monument, which is a copy of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens.  The gardens include Charlotte's Garden, the Topiary, the Rose Garden, the Tower Garden, the Maze and the Leech Pool.  At the southwest extremity of the gardens is the Arboretum which contains 880 plants of 281 species.  Between the Arboretum and the south end of the Broad Walk lies the Japanese Garden which was constructed in the 1910s.  This contains structures such as a Shinto shrine, a tea house and a bridge over the Golden Brook.  The plants, rocks and stones in the garden are arranged to give a natural balance and a mound has been built to resemble Mount Fuji.  The garden had become overgrown and it was restored to its former state in the early 2000s.
caption: Japanese Garden showing the Shinto Shrine
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