Copped Hall

Visible as a romantic ruin from the M25 near Epping, Copped Hall is a fantastic mansion that caught fire in 1919. Since then it has been a ruin and its magnificent Italianate gardens http://www.coppedhalltrust.org.uk/history_victorian.html became a jungle. Now, volunteers have started to restore them and I went to an open day yesteday. Probably the statues and ornaments will never be found, but the weed sycamores have been cleared and the gardens are coming back again.

The fire gutted shell of Copped Hall


The land formally occupied by "one of the finest formal gardens in England"


The Glazed Corridor housed many exotic plants


The long border outside the Walled Garden




Formerly growing produce for the Hall, the four acre Walled Garden is set mainly to lawn and herbaceous beds. The extensive greenhouses are still awaiting restoration.


More information at http://www.coppedhalltrust.org.uk/

[ 28. August 2006, 06:41 PM: Message edited by: Hornbeam ]

 

Wow that is some place and some project. I wish them well.