Japanese Garden, Newstead Abbey

Title

Japanese Garden, Newstead Abbey

Record type

Ephemera

Original Reference

E/PC/BPG/N/1043

Date

c.1910

Scope & content

Uncoloured postcard showing a view of the Japanese garden at Newstead Abbey. Newstead Abbey, formerly an Augustinian priory, became a country house after the Reformation, had grounds landscaped in the 18th century, and was stripped of its assets toward the end of that century and eventually passed from the Byron family. W. F. Webb, at the end of the 19th century, created a Japanese garden

Extent

1 postcard

Physical description

9 (h) x 14 (w) cm

Is part of

British Private Gardens Postcard Collection

Subjects

gardens

Japanese gardens

Credit Line

RHS Lindley Collections