Rode Hall, Formal Garden, Stoke on Trent, Cheshire, England

William Andrew's Nesfield was commissioned in 1861 to lay out terraces and a rose garden in front of Rode Hall.  Nesfield's design was complex.  It consisted of poles and ropes on which roses were entwined.  In the centre of the design was an Urn. 

The families fortunes turned around 1870 and then when the gardeners were called to duty during World War 1 it left the garden seriously short of manpower.   The garden went into steady decline so the 7th Baronet's wife, Betty redesigned the garden changing it to its current layout and making it much easier to maintain.

In 1980 Nesfield's Urn was damaged so the current owner had it replaced with a bronze statue of a Wood Nymph.