Walled garden at Trewidden

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Walled garden at Trewidden by David Smith as part of the Geograph project.

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Walled garden at Trewidden

Image: © David Smith Taken: 21 Mar 2013

In the foreground is a tin boiling kettle, an iron bowl used for purifying tin. Most such kettles were melted for scrap in the second world war, but there are a few at Trewidden which were either lost in the gardens or used as planters. Beyond, on the left of the picture, are two horizontal vine troughs. These were used to force grapes under glass. The vine was rooted at the lower end and trained along the trough. These are, perhaps, unique in Britain. We don't know how much damage was caused to the backs of the gardeners assigned to tend the vines.

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Image Location

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Latitude
50.110575
Longitude
-5.577886