Berry Hill, Taplow, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.  

Mid-19th century pleasure grounds and a small park laid out by Robert Marnock between 1856 and 1860 around a modest country house (now gone), with extensive artificial rockwork by James Pulham.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Berry Hill estate lies at the southern edge of the village of Taplow, about 3 kilometres north-east of the centre of Maidenhead. The 11 hectare estate occupies a long, narrow, rectangular site which runs from north to south down the south-facing Taplow Hill. It is bounded to the north by Mill Lane and beyond this the Taplow Court estate, to the south by Bath Road, to the east by Berry Hill lane, and to the west by fields which run down to the nearby River Thames. The setting is agricultural to the west and east, with the village of Taplow to the north and Maidenhead prominent in the views down to the west and south-west. The adjacent designed landscape of Taplow Court lies to the north, at the southern end of a line of contiguous designed landscapes including Cliveden and Hedsor House.

REFERENCES

The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, (1860), p 815; (1866), pp 759-60

The Garden, (16 December 1871), pp 80-1; (6 January 1872), pp 143-5

B Elliott, Victorian Gardens (1986), p 169

N Pevsner and E Williamson, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire (1994), p 692

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1875

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1875

Archival items

Sale particulars, 1852 (Buckinghamshire Record Office)

Sale particulars, 1855 (Buckinghamshire Record Office)

Description written: February 1999

Amended: April 1999

Edited: June 1999