Gardens and Grounds
In the 18th century Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley had created gardens around the house, both kitchen gardens and orchards to provide food for the household, and also pleasure gardens. The pleasure gardens would have been formal in style as they were laid out by George London. The ironworker Jean Tijou produced an iron entrance gate to the gardens, but this was moved to Houghton Hall in Norfolk by the 4th Earl. John van Nost designed a fountain for the garden. The garden also contained a bowling green and an aviary. The 4th Earl brought in William Emes to redesign the garden who, according to the fashion of the day, buried London's work under a landscape park. The 4th Earl also employed John Webb, a student of Emes, who probably designed the terrace around the house. Around this time the Temple Garden was created for the Earl's first daughter, later Lady Charlotte Seymour. During the 20th century, the 6th Marquess and his wife played a large part in restoring and developing the gardens.
The 6th Marquis died at Cholmondeley Castle in 1990. Lavinia, the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley, aged 92, still lives at the castle.
The extensive ornamental gardens include the Temple Garden, the Rose Garden and mixed borders. There is also a woodland walk well-planted with rhododendrons and magnolias, and a memorial mosaic designed by Maggie Howarth.
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