Avon Carrow gardens
Description of this historic site
Gardens at Avon Carrow surrounding a house built in the Imperial period. The gardens are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1923. They included mixed planting and an avenue of horse chestnut trees. The gardens cover an area in the south east of Avon Dassett.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Gardens including mixed planting and an avenue of horse chestnuts, surrounding a Grade II Listed neo-Tudor stone house built later than 1886 (in the OS map of that date a brickyard is shown in the field).
Recommended for inclusion on Local List.
2 Grounds shown shaded on OS 1:10560 1923 Sht Warks 52NE.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
During the late 1960s Avon Carrow was converted to flats and rented to US Air Force from nearby RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Croughton. I lived in a lovely flat with my wife and two daughters, one which was born at the US Air Force Hospital on RAF South Ruislip, London Borough of Hillingdon.
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