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carpet bedding
low foliage plants of different colours arranged to form a pattern, geometric design or words, especially popular in Victorian parks
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bee bole
niche set into a garden wall used for bee keeping, in which to place a bee ‘skep’, an early form of bee-hive
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clairevoie
gate, opening or grille in a wall that gives a view to the landscape or parkland beyond
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common land
land owned by one person over which another person is entitled to exercise rights of common (such as grazing animals or cutting bracken for livestock bedding), and these rights are generally exercisab [..]
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conduit
artificial channel built for conducting water, as used in construction of the C17th New River
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crinkle-crankle wall
serpentine wall with fruit grown in the bays
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demesne
a house and its land, an estate
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dovecote
building in which doves were kept and reared from early times, often found in or near kitchen or walled gardens
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eyecatcher
garden feature erected in such a way as to be visible from a distance, for example at the end of a view
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gothic
medieval style of architecture that was revived in the C18th and popularised by a number of leading architects
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