Corsham Court, a Royal Manor in the days of the Saxon Kings and now home of the Methuen family, is based on an Elizabethan house dating from 1582. It was bought by Paul Methuen in the mid-18th century to house a collection of 16th and 17th century It ...
The grand Edwardian-style gardens at Hazelbury were laid out by the not-then-naked gardeners (see The Abbey House) in the 1970s and 1980s. Fine topiary, deep and colourful herbaceous borders, a circle of menhirs and a laburnum walk are the principal ...