RHS Garden, Hyde Hall
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The Royal Horticultural Society
's garden at Hyde Hall in the English
county
of Essex
east of London
. It is one of four public gardens run by the Society, alongside Wisley
, Harlow Carr, and Rosemoor. In the year ended 31 January 2010 it received 130,011 visitors.
Hyde Hall was founded by Dr and Mrs Robinson in 1955, formerly a working farm on a hilltop surrounded by arable land. The site was cleared and 60 trees purchased from Wickford
market a few miles away. These trees now form the Woodland Garden.
In the 1960s shelter belts of Lawson and Leyland cypress hedges were planted. During this decade the farmland to the west of the Hyde Hall hilltop was incorporated into the garden.
In 1976 Helen and Dick Robinson formed the Hyde Hall Garden Trust which would manage the garden on a long term basis. It was in 1993 that this trust donated Hyde Hall to the Royal Horticultural Society.
Royal Horticultural Society
The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804 in London, England as the Horticultural Society of London, and gained its present name in a Royal Charter granted in 1861 by Prince Albert...
's garden at Hyde Hall in the English
England
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county
County
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of Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...
east of London
London
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. It is one of four public gardens run by the Society, alongside Wisley
RHS Garden, Wisley
The Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley in the English county of Surrey south of London, is one four public gardens run by the Society, the others being Harlow Carr, Hyde Hall and Rosemoor...
, Harlow Carr, and Rosemoor. In the year ended 31 January 2010 it received 130,011 visitors.
Hyde Hall was founded by Dr and Mrs Robinson in 1955, formerly a working farm on a hilltop surrounded by arable land. The site was cleared and 60 trees purchased from Wickford
Wickford
Wickford is a town in the south of the English county of Essex, with a population of more than 32,500. Located approximately 30 miles east of London, it falls within the District of Basildon along with Basildon, Billericay, Laindon and Pitsea....
market a few miles away. These trees now form the Woodland Garden.
In the 1960s shelter belts of Lawson and Leyland cypress hedges were planted. During this decade the farmland to the west of the Hyde Hall hilltop was incorporated into the garden.
In 1976 Helen and Dick Robinson formed the Hyde Hall Garden Trust which would manage the garden on a long term basis. It was in 1993 that this trust donated Hyde Hall to the Royal Horticultural Society.
Sources
- Brent Elliott: The Royal Horticultural Society, A History 1804-2004. Published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 1 86077 2722.