Bishopthorpe Walled Kitchen Garden

Robert Hay Drummond became Archbishop in 1761 and the walled kitchen gardens were completed for him in 1767. They were on the opposite (west) side of the road from the palace and pleasure grounds. William Markham, Archbishop between 1777 and 1807, 'built an exceedingly good and convenient pinery [for growing pineapples], and a flued wall [heated to protect blossom and assist in ripening fruit] 181 feet in length', which was present by 1785. By 1818, the kitchen gardens were described as occupying about seven acres and containing 'extensive hot-houses, fruit walls, store-ponds for fish, and every other requisite accommodation'.