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Elvaston Castle
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Elvaston
Castle and the surrounding parkland was the seat of the Earls
of Harrington until 1939.
The gothic-style castle was designed for the 3rd Earl of
Harrington in the early 19th century by the architect James
Wyatt, although Wyatt himself did not live to see his designs
carried out.
The gardens were created for Charles the 4th Earl of
Harrington by William Barron and a team of 90 gardeners
between 1830 and the Earl’s death in 1851.
By 1850 Barron had planted examples of every species of
European conifer then known at Elvaston, as well as an avenue
of limes which led to the Golden Gates. These gates, which had
previously adorned the royal palaces at Madrid and Versailles,
had been acquired by the 3rd Earl of Harrington in 1819.
Under the 4th Earl the gardens at Elvaston remained a private
place for the Earl himself and his wife.
Factoids
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Every species of
European conifer then known in 1850 was planted at Elvaston
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A Moorish temple
was built in the gardens
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It was Britain's
first public country park/estate
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The film Women in
Love was filmed on the site
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Barron’s design created a series of theme gardens to the south
of the castle, including an Italian garden based on designs
from Tuscany, and the Alhambra garden which included a Moorish
temple
The bower garden, which became known as the Garden of the Fair
Star, had a monkey puzzle tree in a star shaped bed at its
centre, as well as many statues and green and yellow yew trees
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It had to
wait for the succession of Leicester Stanhope as the 5th Earl
of Harrington before the gardens were opened to the public.
When the gardens were opened thousands of people visited them
despite the rather high admission fee of three shillings,
often travelling to Elvaston on special excursion trains.
During and after the Second World War the castle at Elvaston
was home to a teacher training college, evacuated for safety
from Derby. Every room in the castle was needed to accommodate
over 150 staff and students: the cellar was used as an air
raid shelter, and the Hall of the Fair Star became a lecture
room and common-room.
The acquisition of
Elvaston castle and surrounding land by the County Council and
Derby Corporation was completed in 1969, and the park was
opened on Good Friday 1970 and was the first of it’s kind in
Britain spanning over 200 acres of beautiful varied landscape |
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| Barron also planted several avenues of trees and constructed a
large lake on the site (where, incidentally, some of the
scenes in Women in Love were filmed). |
| The Autumn of
2003 provided some spectacular autumn foliage, here are a few
from the grounds |
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