Lydney Park

Lydney Park is a 17^th century nation home encompassing Lydney House, situated at Lydney in the Forest of Dean area in Gloucestershire, England. It is known for its patio nurseries and Roman sanctuary complex. Lydney Park was purchased in 1719 by Benjamin Bathurst, child of the Cofferer of the Household to Queen Anne, and has stayed in the family from that point forward. The house was initially near the primary street, with an expansive deer stop behind it. The current garden was produced following 1950 constantly Viscount Bledisloe and his family.

There is a forest garden running along a detached valley, planted with magnolias, rhododendrons, azaleas and other blooming bushes. There is a cleared patio above and formal greenery enclosures which are well known in the Spring, when the daffodils blossom. The greenhouses are private land, and are available to the general population on certain days relying upon season.

The house likewise has an exhibition hall containing discoveries from the Roman site and curios from New Zealand gathered by the primary Viscount Bledisloe. The zone has an early British Iron Age projection fort– type slope stronghold, known as Lydney Camp, covering 4.5 sections of land. The Romans burrowed there for iron mineral, likely in the third century AD, yet obviously surrendered the workings as unproductive. Open-cast press mines, or scowles, burrows still exist all through the slope.