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Parts of the Granada TV episode The Musgrave Ritual were filmed here.

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Medieval garden characteristics:

Gardens enclosed with wattle fences or quickthorn hedges

Trellis walkways and arbours providing shade and privacy

Raised beds to prevent plants becoming waterlogged

Grass treated as a flowery mead planted with low growing wild flowers

Turf seats usually built against a wall with flowers planted in the grass

Physic gardens with regimented beds of medicinal herbs

Orchards providing apples for the kitchen and for making cider

Fish ponds and stew ponds (where fish were purged of muddy water before cooking) to ensure a regular supply of protein during the many fast days of the Christian calendar

Dovecotes to provide pigeons for the kitchen, feathers for cushions and dung for fertilizing the garden

Pleasances, or ornamental parks for recreation, relaxation and sport

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