Snitterfield Vicarage garden
Description of this historic site
Villa-type pleasure grounds with walks, paddocks, lake and kitchen garden. Site redeveloped.
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Notes about this historic site
1 2 Snitterfield Vicarage garden, Snitterfield.
Lovie reports villa-type pleasure grounds with walks, paddocks, lake and kitchen garden. Garden created from about 1740.
Lovie comments that an attempt to identify the site was not successful. The house appears to have been removed and site redeveloped.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
Richard Jago, the poet, was vicar here for twenty years.
At one time on the lawn there were three silver birch trees. Planted by Richard Jago’s daughter, they were nicknamed, “the three ladies”.
Source: “Shakespeare’s Greenwood” by George Morley
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