The English Garden

Where Past MEETS PRESENT

Carved into the southern edge of the Cotswold escarpment is a garden possessing a rare blend of past and present. Cox’s Hill House’s past is its conception: built around 1810 (by French prisoners, as legend has it, during the Napoleonic Wars), it’s laid out across two large terraces with buttressed walls towering over lawns, borders and clipped evergreen topiary. Its modernity can be attributed to its current owner and garden designer, Charles Harman. He has developed the garden

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