Madingley Hall was an elegant 16th-century country house with a formal, Dutch-style garden. In 1756 Sir John Hynde Cotton, the 4th Baronet employed Capability Brown to create a more naturalistic landscape in the eighteen century style. The redesigned park includes a lake with a sham bridge, sloping lawns, and views to the east and north of the house.
The Walled Garden dates to the mid-18th Century, and was used as a kitchen garden. The arched Hazel Walk is thought to date to the mid-19th Century. To the south of this are a variety of borders containing a wide range of hardy plants, both familiar and unusual being grown in a raised alpine bed, a sunken garden, a medicinal border, rose pergola and many other mixed borders.
Today there was snow on the ground and the snowdrops were abundant.
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