Date:April 1634
Description:In April 1634 twenty nine pounds and four shillings were paid ‘for the garden & for worke done by the gardener & by his severall worke men’. In the same month payments of six shillings were made ‘for a Seate in Sir Richards garden’. Later in April 1634 six shillings and sixpence were ‘Paid to Raphe Sutton for making a portall doore into the Kitchin garden’. Contextual Information featured on pages relating to Trentham Gardens has been provided by Sue Gregory who has been instrumental in the research and selection of documents for this section. Sue has been part of the management team of Staffordshire Gardens & Parks Trust since its creation in 1992 and has over fourteen years of experience researching Trentham Gardens in the Sutherland Papers.
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Sir Richard Leveson’s wife Lady Katherine Leveson also had her own garden at Trentham. In June 1634 ...
Large amounts of money were spent in the garden at Trentham in December 1634. Sixty eight pounds, eleven ...
In 1697 Reverend George Plaxton, the Rector of Donnington and close associate of the Leveson-Gower family, ...
Estate Accounts from 1732-1733 tell us that hotbeds and hotwalls were added to the Kitchen Garden during ...
Sue Gregory suggests that work began on a new five acre kitchen garden in the 1740s. This new garden ...
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