Cobham Hall Garden

A great Elizabethan house, with seventeenth and eighteenth century additions, set in a deer park which no longer has deer. Humphry Repton produced a Red Book for the garden (c1790) and it is being restored the Cobham Hall Heritage Trust. The bastion he designed survives but with a crumbling balustrade. Remains of Repton's wire fence can also be seen. A rather-good knot garden in front of the house was not part of Repton's scheme. The area east of the house has a small temple and an aviary. Repton thought he would 'astonish some of the improvers in modern serpentine gardening' by proposing a 'broad and stately mall along a straight line of terrace'.