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Southwood House, Derbyshire. 2001
At a request from the Historic Gardens Society, I carried out this survey of
a walled garden, now much overgrown and used for grazing a few sheep. The
dark line crossing horizontally is the course of a culvert which carries a
water supply to a pond on the western side. The vertical dark line
corresponds with an area where the vegetation is much denser with a line of
trees and patches of nettles, which indicates much wetter soil. I am seeing
here zig-zag lines very similar to those on the plot of Llwydiarth, which
makes me wonder whether there was a maze here also, although there is no
historical evidence. The maze was once a statement of prestige as well as
for amusement and went through a phase of popularity about the time that
Southwood was at its height.
Surveyed at 1 metre intervals. |
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