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Five acre Helmsley Walled Garden, has undergone extensive restoration as a fully working kitchen garden. Originally built in 1756, incorporates glass houses designed in 1850 as a vine house. Cleaverland Way,
Helmsley, York, YO6 5AH. Open to the public for a fee.
Formerly a part of the estate of Duncombe Manor the present 1759 garden replaced an earlier one which was washed away by the river. In WW1 the 20 gardeners were called up, the first Earl died and then the second Earl was killed in the war and the third Earl inherited at age 10. The big house was turned into a girls school and this garden was abandoned.
In these images use by local people is evident but in the end the garden became derelict. Restoration began in 1994. The Garden is a registered charity. '