Poles Park

The land was enclosed farmland in the mid eighteenth century. Most of the park was laid out around a mansion by the 1820s, and Robert Hanbury commissioned a new house in 1844. James Pulham made his first glasshouse rockwork here in 1865–66, forming a fernery. In 1890–91 Edmund Hanbury engaged architect Ernest George to replace the earlier house with one in an Elizabethan style. These phases gave the landscape its nineteenth-century ornamental character.

At its largest the park covered about 54 hectares, while the area close to the house is described as roughly fourteen and a half. The former estate later passed into divided ownership and use, with a hotel and golf course occupying parts of it. It does not establish which particular pieces of Pulham's fernery remain. The ornamental garden occupied ground near the house, within a wider park whose size and use changed substantially.