One of the elements Amicia Oldfield appreciates most about Doddington Place, where she lives with her husband, Richard, is the “breathing space between each part. There are wide lawns and ancient trees, so you don’t go immediately from one designed area into the next.”
There are layers of garden design at Doddington Place Gardens. When the house was built in 1870 for the Crofts, the port and sherry family, they commissioned a design for the garden from the well-known Victorian garden designer Markham Nesfield. However, only a terrace around the house and an avenue of the then newly fashionable Wellingtonia trees remain from this era. It was the subsequent owners, the Oldfield family, who created the gardens as they are today. Maude Jeffreys (née Oldfield) allegedly bought Doddington Place in
