William Paxton’s 230 Hectare 18th Century Park is the setting for the first new botanic garden to be created in the UK in over 200 years. In the hills overlooking the Tywi Valley, a masterplan by Colvin and Moggridge has guided the restoration and development of the Middleton Estate.
The garden’s general organisation is conceived as a processional movement for visitors, from a low-lying point of arrival at the southern end, to its cultural and scientific heart where original buildings survive on higher ground. The visitor approaches the heart of the garden gradually through a sequence of views and experiences with order and clarity provided by the simplicity of line of the Broadwalk. Special garden spaces have been created by adapting and restoring remnants of the earlier design, the Walled Garden and the series of riverine lakes winding along the valley in the centre of the site. There are places to receive large numbers of people with numerous points of interest in addition to remoter areas where more delicate aspects of nature can be encountered in solitude.
- MASTERPLAN
- ADVICE DURING GARDEN DEVELOPMENT
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