Rettendon, Essex nr Chelmsford - Hyde Hall, garden - postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  Hyde Hall, Rettendon, Chelmsford, Essex - shows gardens with stool? Photo - Smith Colllection
• Publisher:  Essex Telegraph Ltd, Colchester (printers)
• Postally used:  no
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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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Rettendon is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Chelmsford in Essex, England about 8 miles (13 km) south east of the city of Chelmsford. Situated near the River Crouch the village was once owned by the Bishop of Ely. The A130 formerly passed through the village. There are a number of listed buildings in the Parish.^[1]

RHS Garden Hyde Hall is a public display garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society in the English county of Essex, east of London. It is one of four public gardens run by the Society, alongside Wisley in Surrey, RHS Garden Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire, and RHS Garden Rosemoor in Devon. In the year ended 31 January 2010 it received 130,011 visitors.

The garden at Hyde Hall was created by Dr and Mrs Robinson in 1955.^[1] Hyde Hall was formerly a working farm on a hilltop surrounded by arable land. The site was cleared and 60 trees purchased from Wickford market a few miles away. These trees now form the Woodland Garden.

In the 1960s shelter belts of Lawson and Leyland cypress hedges were planted. During this decade the farmland to the west of the Hyde Hall hilltop was incorporated into the garden.

In 1976 Helen and Dick Robinson formed the Hyde Hall Garden Trust which would manage the garden on a long-term basis. The trust donated Hyde Hall to the Royal Horticultural Society in 1993.^[2]

The curator is Ian le Gros.^[3]