Stately splendour
IN BRIEF
Name Parcevall Hall Gardens.
What Country-house garden.
Where North Yorkshire.
Size 24 acres.
Soil Alkaline loam over limestone.
Climate Temperate, but the upland conditions bring higher-than-average rainfall, cooler summers and colder winters.
Hardiness zone USDA 8.
Restored and expanded by Sir William Milner in the late 1920s, Parcevall Hall sits above a series of magnificent terraces; a diverse shelterbelt gives respite from the exposed climate of the upper Yorkshire Dales.
the approach to Parcevall Hall the lanes get progressively narrower, and there are some vicious bends. The hillsides around are rather bleak, the bare limestone exposed by centuries
