Topic summary
Batsford Park
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Batsford Arboretum.
History
The estate of Batsford Park was inherited from the 1st Earl of Redesdale in May 1886 by the diplomat and writer A. B. Mitford, who was later created, in 1902, Baron Redesdale (by the second creation). He had travelled widely in Asia and developed the garden as a "wild" landscape with natural plantings inspired by Chinese and Japanese practice.