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    Little ITALY

    May 19, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHS CAROLE DRAKE
    Peto created an intensely atmospheric ‘hanging garden’ suffused with his love of Italy, despite its very English setting

    In 1898, the year before architect and garden designer Harold Peto bought Iford Manor near Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, he undertook a journey around the world that included a ten-week stay in Japan. In his diary he writes: “Decidedly I will never undertake a long journey again... Far wiser to stay mostly at home and ‘cultivate your garden’… read about far-distant places and visit them in imagination… and appreciate the delights which are at hand…”

    What finer place to ‘cultivate your garden’ than deep in a hidden English valley around a honey-coloured, 17th-century manor house with a handsome Palladian facade? Over

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