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Dundas Castle, Walled Garden

Walled Garden (19th Century)

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Dundas Castle, Walled Garden is a 19th Century walled garden in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. Its boundary still stands where human hands once shaped soil, seed and season into a living room for the castle. The wall does not promise entry, but it remembers the shape of that private world and the patience required to keep it alive.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dundas Castle, Walled Garden as Walled Garden (19th Century). 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.
Dundas Castle, Walled Garden was built in the 19th century as part of the estate associated with the Dundas family, who were prominent in Scottish landownership and politics. The walled garden is remembered as an example of formal horticultural design typical of country estates during this period.

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