Royal Estate, Windsor, Frogmore Gardens, Windsor, England

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Part/component area of: Royal Estate, Windsor Great Park

Brief description of site

Frogmore Gardens has a late-18th-century picturesque landscape garden, further developed in the 19th and 20th centuries. The site covers about 15 hectares, and features unusual plants and buildings including the Mausoleum for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Brief history of site

Two estates were joined in 1684 as the Great Frogmore estate. The Royal architect Hugh May was employed to design a fine new house, which forms the core of the present house. The enclosed formal garden to the west of this house included a parterre and allées, with a grove or wilderness at the southern end. By 1766 a formal rectangular canal flanked by avenues of trees was separated from the south front of the house by a bowling green on the site of the earlier parterre. A further parterre lay on the east, entrance front of the house, replaced by 1770 by a semicircular driveway. Queen Charlotte employed James Wyatt to remodel the house 1792-95, and Major William Price to advise on the Picturesque layout of the grounds.

Location information:

OS Landranger Map Sheet Number:	175	Grid Ref:	SU974760
Latitude:	51.47459	Longitude:	-0.5989803

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