Our historic gardens
Test your knowledge of our historic gardens with this quiz from our historians and gardeners.
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2 Name two English Heritage sites which contain a grotto, an artificial cave used as a decorative garden feature?
Answer: Marble Hill House and Old Wardour Castle
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3 Where in English Heritage’s portfolio can you find an Arts and Crafts garden?
Answer: Mount Grace Priory, House and Gardens and Eltham Palace and Gardens
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5 In the 1380s King Richard II laid out a herb garden where he and the Queen could “have dinner in the summer time” at which English Heritage site?
Answer: Eltham Palace and Gardens
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6 For whom did Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester create a garden at Kenilworth Castle in 1575?
Answer: Elizabeth I
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7 The quarry garden that Sir Charles Monck created at Belsay is a fine example of which style of garden?
Answer: Picturesque garden
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8 What is a ha-ha?
Answer: A sunk fence which kept cattle out of a garden whilst giving people in the garden an unimpeded view into the countryside
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10. Which two English Heritage gardens have dog cemeteries?
Answer: Wrest Park and Brodsworth Hall and Gardens
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11 How did William Andrews Nesfield describe the vast parterre gardens he created at Witley Court in the 1850s?
Answer: His ‘monster work’
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13 When was the walled kitchen garden at Audley End created and by whom?
Answer: By Elizabeth, Countess of Portsmouth in the 1750s
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14 Conduit houses on the hillside above Bolsover Castle supplied water to which garden feature?
Answer: The Venus fountain
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15 Which English Heritage garden includes a cricket pitch still in use today?
Answer: Audley End House and Gardens
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16 Rushton Triangular Lodge is closely associated with which 16th-century garden and unfinished country house?
Answer: Lyveden New Bield, also built by Sir Thomas Tresham
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17 From where were the columns of the pergola in the garden at Eltham Palace salvaged?
Answer: From the old Bank of England, demolished in the 1920s
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19 What was the Target House in the gardens at Brodsworth Hall and Gardens used for?
Answer: For archers to rest when using the nearby Target Range
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20 Which English Heritage garden has been nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site status?
Answer: Down House, Home of Charles Darwin
