Kingston Park Pleasure Gardens, Rushcliffe, England

This site is NOT open to public.

Brief description of site

Kingston Hall, now divided into apartments, is surrounded by pleasure gardens and parkland. The pleasure gardens are substantially intact and the parkland to the south of the Hall retains its historical configuration. Remaining features include an arboretum, a pavilion, entrances and gate lodges, as well as a kitchen garden and formal terraced gardens with parterres. The Greek temple, built during the 1890s, was sold for scrap after 1976.

Brief history of site

In 1830, the estate passed to Edward Strutt MP, who in the next decade created the woodlands at Station Plantation, Moor Wood and The Belt, and in 1840 he commissioned Edward Blore to build Kingston Hall on Great Hill Field. The architect also laid out the gardens around the house and the wider parkland beyond. The Hall was converted to twelve apartments in 1980, and other buildings in the immediate vicinity of the Hall were sold off for separate occupation.

Location information:

OS Landranger Map Sheet Number:	129	Grid Ref:	SK507279
Latitude:	52.84623	Longitude:	-1.248659

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