Killerton Gardens, Exeter, Devon - Herbaceous Garden - postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Killerton Gardens, near Exeter Devon - the Herbaceous garden at the foot of the hill
• Publisher:  National Trust
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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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Killerton is an 18th-century house in Broadclyst, Exeter, Devon, England, which, with its hillside garden and estate, has been owned by the National Trust since 1944 and is open to the public. The National Trust displays the house as a comfortable home. On display in the house is a collection of 18th- to 20th-century costumes, originally known as the Paulise de Bush collection, shown in period rooms.

The estate covers some 2590 hectares (25.9 km², 6400 acres).^[1] Included in the Estate is a steep wooded hillside with the remains of an Iron Age Hill fort on top of it, also known as Dolbury which has also yielded evidence of Roman occupation, thought to be a possible fort or marching camp within the Hill fort.^[2]

The manor of Columb John in the parish of Broadclyst was purchased by Sir John Acland (d.1620), MP and Sheriff of Devon. The adjoining estate of Killerton was purchased a short time thereafter by his nephew Sir Arthur Acland (d.1610) of Acland in the parish of Landkey as jointure for his wife Eleanor Mallet.^[3] The present Georgian Killerton House was built for Sir Thomas Acland, 7th baronet in 1778, The chapel was built in 1738 to the designs of Charles Robert Cockerell.

The garden was created in the 1770s by John Veitch, one of the leading landscape designers of the time. It features rhododendrons, magnolias, herbaceous borders and rare trees, as well as an ice house and early 19th-century summer house. The surrounding parkland and woods offer a number of circular walks.

Killerton was given to the National Trust by British politician Sir Richard Acland, the 15th baronet.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=devon

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

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