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    Testing the WATER

    Dec 01, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS MATT REES-WARREN
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    REBECCA BERNSTEIN

    A mid flooded meadows and marshy woods of black poplar and crack willow, sits a garden of the most unusual quality and disposition. Held in the arms of the River Avon as it snakes south-east through Wiltshire on its circular journey towards the Bristol Channel, is a garden on an island: a literal oasis of serene detachment from the outside world. The island is, in fact, artificial – a working mill is recorded at this site in the Doomsday Book – with the river diverging through chases, weirs and millponds to leave the garden, and house, surrounded by water. Arne Maynard, principal designer of the garden as it is today, describes the

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