Victorian gardening manuals often advised gardeners who had the luxury of spacious, yet irregular, grounds, to impart some order on that irregularity, but yet to create distinct 'rooms' with a sense of novelty within each to prevent a 'disagreeable Uniformity'. In one section the gardener might have flower beds, in another a stand of trees, in yet more sections water features and stately bowers. The visitor was to be encouraged to wander throughout by the spectacle of ever opening vistas into 'new orders of beauties'. Even the surrounding countryside should only be revealed in glimpses at carefully chosen locations.

Key:

A - the courtyard and buildings B - a bridge over the fosse C - the areas covered with dots and alleys of turf D - Large flower beds E - verdant halls F - Palisades G - a little grove H - An arbor with an adjoining terrace for enjoying a view of the country I - A parterre after the english manner to be viewed from one of the wings of the house

K - a large alley under the windows of another wing and extended to the country L - a parterre divided into oblong compartments M - another part of the plat formed into an intersected garden N- another part of the plat formed into a melon bed O - The High Road P - a short palisade low enough to unite the alley K with the avenue Q R - the country S - The elevation of the arbor H.