Hestercombe
Hestercombe Gardens
Hestercombe Gardens is a Grade I registered historic landscape encompassing 120.22 hectares in Somerset, celebrated as the seminal collaborative masterpiece between garden designer Gertrude Jekyll and architect Edwin Lutyens.
Hestercombe Gardens presents a unique continuum of English garden history spanning three centuries across three distinct styles: an 18th-century picturesque landscape garden created by Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, a Victorian terrace, and the world-renowned formal Edwardian garden designed between 1904 and 1908 by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.
The Lutyens-Jekyll collaboration at Hestercombe is widely regarded as a pinnacle of Arts and Crafts garden design, characterized by geometric stonework terraces, rills, sunken parterres, and Jekyll's painterly, drift-style herbaceous borders.
Formally protected under the Historic England Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest (List Entry 1000437) at Grade I, the 120-hectare estate is preserved under the stewardship of the Hestercombe Gardens Trust.
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