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  • The English Garden

    GROWING HISTORY

    May 22, 2019 5 minutes
    WORDS VANESSA BERRIDGE
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    MARK BOLTON

    TURN OFF THE A417 GLOUCESTER/CIRENCESTER road, and the lanes contract, becoming ever narrower as they wind up and down hills, past woods, stone cottages and fields of sheep. Double round a hairpin bend into Miserden, which is little more than a hamlet, and you’ll see signs – ‘The Village Shop’ and ‘The Village Hall’ – all in the same green with gold lettering. It creates a pleasing sense of cohesion within this mellow Cotswold village.

    At the far end of the village stands the Jacobean house, built by the Sandys family who lived at Miserden from 1616 to 1832. It is shielded from north winds by a line of mature horse chestnuts mentioned in sales details for one of three 19th-century changes of ownership. Present owner Nicholas Wills

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