The Norfolk and Norwich Christian community website Come and help at North Norfolk Christian centre The Pleasaunce Holiday Centre in Overstrand is holding a work-party morning on Saturday June 12 and would like as many people as possible to join in to help get the gardens ship-shape. The
Christian Endeavour Holiday Centre, The Pleasaunce, is situated close to the beach in
Overstrand, two miles south-east of Cromer. It is a Grade II listed mansion, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Lord and Lady Battersea. The main house stands in 6 acres of walled grounds containing a chapel, cloisters, sunken and rose gardens and a clock tower. The grounds extend to the cliffs overlooking Overstrand’s sandy beach. Accommodating up to 80 guests, the Centre is an ideal destination for holidaymakers, conference groups, weekend/mid-week breaks, school parties and retreats.
Visitors to the Luton Hoo estate walled garden
- Credit: Archant
There s something quintessentially English about wandering around a country garden, the sunlight dappled by the trees, bees buzzing between the plants, and the bouquet of flowers hanging in the air.
1. The Walled Garden at Luton Hoo Estate
Conceived by the celebrated landscape designer Capability Brown in the late 1760s for John Stuart, Third Early of Bute and George III s Prime Minister.
It evolved over the following centuries to reflect different horicultural fashions and the tastes of successive owners, eventually falling into neglect in the late 1970s.
A restoration project began in 2001, carried out by a team of gardeners, researchers and historians in conjunction with the restoration and conservation team, with support from an education group, all dedicated to celebrating the importance of the garden in Victorian and Edwardian society.
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