Parcevall Hall Gardens

Our visit to Parcevall Hall Gardens was our second visit this year to a garden created in the inter-war years. Sir William Milner, architect, plantsman and horticulturalist, purchased the derelict Parcevall Hall in 1927 and transformed the agricultural landscape of a steep Dales valley into 24 acres of woodland and formal gardens. He created terraced compartments, a rose garden, a rock Garden and added woodland to an otherwise almost treeless landscape - his close associates included Hon. Robert James of St. Nicholas, Richmond and Major Lawrence Johnson who laid out Hidcote in Gloucestershire. As a keen plantsman he received trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants collected from remote corners of the world, by George Forrest in Western China and Tibet, and from Lord Grey of Howick and J.C.Williams of Caerhays in Cornwall. Sir William became a founder member of the Northern Horticulture Society which established the gardens at Harlow Carr near Harrogate, now RHS Harlow Carr.

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