Leek Wootton Vicarage (Wootton Paddox) garden, Leek Wootton
Description of this historic site
Formal gardens, terrace, paddock with boundary planting.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Leek Wootton Vicarage garden, Leek Wootton.
Lovie reports drive, terrace, formal gardens, paddock with boundary planting.
Some 19th century planting remains at time of Lovie’s report (1996/7) but he states that a full inspection was not possible.
House called Wootton Paddox at time of report.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
There used to be a stone summer house in the garden. Underneath was a cellar where three Royalist lords (one of them possibly being Lord Leigh) would socialise. They used to drink a toast to the “little man in velvet”. This was meant to be a mole, King William of Orange’s horse stumbled on a mole hill. Which caused him to fall from his horse, break his collar bone and eventually die from the injury.
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