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Leighton Bromswold

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Leighton Bromswold
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What is recorded here

Leighton Bromswold's former formal garden is legible mainly through earthworks. It was made for an early seventeenth-century house that disappeared before the middle of the following century.

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Leighton Bromswold's former formal garden is legible mainly through earthworks. It was made for an early seventeenth-century house that disappeared before the middle of the following century.

History

Sir Gervaise Clifton built a house here around 1605, and John Thorpe designed a formal garden to accompany it. The house was demolished before 1750. The moated gatehouse and garden earthworks survive from that designed estate, a sharply reduced remnant of the original house-and-garden scheme.

In the grounds

The former garden covers about 2.5 hectares. Raised banks along the south-east boundary and parts of the south-west and north-east sides still mark its outline; trees cover those banks. The ground was later used as the parish cricket pitch. Its open playing area therefore sits over a much older planned garden whose boundaries remain visible in the landform.

Sources for this account

Sources checked 2026-10-18.

From the Historic England (National Heritage List for England) record 1000625

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Date first registered
16 January 1985
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  • Michael Garlick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John Sutton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Hugh Venables, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Des Blenkinsopp, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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