The Walled Garden in Thames Street has won the prestigious Green Flag Award for the fifth year running.
The Green Flag Award scheme recognises and rewards the best green spaces in the country and this year the Walled Garden is one of a record number of spaces to receive the Award.
The historic Walled Garden in Sunbury Park was built in the early part of the 18th Century. Following years of neglect, Spelthorne Borough Council embarked on a project to restore the two acre garden in 1985.
Expert use of trees, shrubs and climbers on the ancient walls, which are 8 to 10 feet high in places, make the garden a beautiful place to visit. The sheer variety of plants provide great inspiration for gardeners and the Lendy Memorial provides an impressive centre piece.
The Walled Garden is open seven days a week, from 7.30am-8.30pm in the summer months.
Those residents who have recently moved to the area may like to know that the historic walled garden in Sunbury Park was most probably built in the early part of the 18th century for the large mansion built on the site for Sir Roger Hudson and there is a drawing in Colin Campbell’s ‘Vitruvius Britannicus’ showing the housing in Sunbury Park in 1714.
Walled gardens were a particular feature of the larger Georgian and Victorian houses, and were used for the growing of high quality fruit and vegetables for the wealthy owner of the house.
