Elmstead Market, Essex - Beth Chatto's Garden - local postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  Beth Chatto's Garden, Elmstead Market, Essex
• Publisher: Friends of St. Francis Hospice
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  17p Machin
• Postmark(s): Southend on Sea
• Sent to:  High Wycombe
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Elmstead Market is a village in the civil parish of Elmstead, in the Tendring district of Essex. It lies 3 km northeast of Wivenhoe and 6 km east of Colchester. It is on the A133 road which runs to Clacton-on-Sea, in the southeast, and Colchester in the west.

Elmstead Market has a range of shops including a Budgens convenience store, petrol station and other smaller shops. Until recently, there was a Post Office in the village.

The village has a community centre which has a range of activities from exercise classes to line dancing, Cubs, Scouts.

There is also a cricket club, numerous eateries, a pool club and a courtyard with selection of retail units.

The Beth Chatto Gardens lie just outside the village.

Beth Chatto OBE VMH (27 June 1923 – 13 May 2018)^[1] was a British plantswoman, garden designer and author best known for creating the Beth Chatto Gardens near Elmstead Market in the English county of Essex. She was also known for writing several books on gardening for specific conditions. She lectured throughout the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and Germany. Her gardening and writing use the principle of the right plant for the right place, developed from her husband Andrew Chatto's lifelong research into the origin of garden plants.