Description:The Estate Accounts for 1774-1775 reveal that improvements continued to be made to the Kitchen Garden and parts of the garden walls were rebuilt. In addition, there are frequent entries throughout these accounts for the moving of earth referring to the widening of the River Trent at Trentham which took place during this period. Sue Gregory suggests that earth was moved from the area south of the lake to the fields at the north of the house and that the river was widened considerably during this period. On June 1775 Betson Cliff & Co. were paid ‘for cutting the slopes at the River Trent 674 yards’. A further entry for this same date tells us that Cliff, Henny & Co. were paid for widening the lake. In July 1775 George Brassington & Co. were paid ‘for cutting 466 yards of Earth on the West Side of the River’.
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.