What is recorded here

Castle Fraser Policies is a post-medieval walled garden in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Its cisterns date from 1561 to 1899, when water had to be caught, stored and carried by hand. The wall enclosed more than plants: it marked the reach of a household that controlled rain, soil and hunger. To walk its edge is to touch the boundary where nature stopped being free and became property.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Fraser Policies as Walled Garden (post Medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Castle Fraser Policies, including its walled garden, were part of the Fraser family estate, who held the lands of Fraser in Aberdeenshire from at least the 13th century. The Policies reflect the post-Medieval development of the estate and are important as an example of formal garden design associated with a historically significant Scottish family.

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