Bernays Garden

Bernays Garden is small walled garden of 0.3 hectares placed on the stop of the purchasing centre on the junction of Old Church Lane and Church Road. The garden affords a quiet location wherein to sit and loosen up. The 'cowshed' constructing presently derelict is scheduled to be renovated for use as artists' studios later this year. Dogs are not allowed. Ernays Gardens network institution are volunteers who are operating to improve and hold the gardens. Bernays Gardens is positioned on what changed into once a part of the grounds of a massive house called Manor House, in view that demolished.

It takes its name from the Bernays family, of whom Leopold and later Stewart Bernays have been rectors of Stanmore parish church. The close by Ernest Bernays Memorial Institute commemorates Leopold's eldest son Ernest who died tragically in 1870. The secluded public garden dates from the mid-C20th and became laid out with lawns, shrubbery beds, areas of ornamental planting and incorporates some of high-quality timber. Former outbuildings Church House Cottage and Cowmans Cottage face onto the garden.