Farming in Protected Landscapes Case Study:
Renovation of Walled Garden, Tendring Hall Park
For Year 4 of the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme, £27,931 was granted to the Tendring Hall Estate towards removal of trees from the former walled garden, to prevent further damage to this historic feature and allow the repair of the walls and re-use of the space over time.
The former walled garden to Tendring Hall had become overgrown with a number of self seeded and planted trees now representing a danger to the integrity of the remaining structure. This project has contributed towards clearing these trees and grinding the stumps out.
Why is this area so special?
The walled garden is one of the few historic structures left in the Grade II listed Tendring Hall Park. The wall can be seen by the footpath which runs alongside.
The oldest part of the walled garden dates to 1780, thought to have been designed by John Soane, with later additions through to the C19th. It is a key feature of the registered park status. The trees were causing damage to the walls, and needed to be carefully removed to protect the wall from further damage.
Will the trees be replaced?
As a condition of the felling licence, the Estate planted a new area of woodland in the park in accordance with Repton’s original proposals. This will be an area of well managed and attractive woodland, replacing the overgrown, scrubby and self seeded trees of low environmental quality that are being removed in the walled garden.