ONE more look at the splendours of Sedbury Park.
Here’s a photo of the formal gardens of clipped yew hedges and topiary.
It was taken in the time when the house was a luxury hotel in the ’20s.
When the estate had been sold in October 1920, the beautifully laid out gardens were a special feature of Sedbury Park.
It would have taken a lot of skill and manpower to maintain this, and this was harder to find in the years following the First World War.
The 1920s was a period of decline and frequent demise of large country houses and their gardens.
Text by the curator of Monmouthshire Museums.
Photograph from the collections of Chepstow Museum ©Monmouthshire Museums
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