Hampton Court (Herefordshire)
Hampton Court in Herefordshire is a late medieval castle-like mansion on the banks of the River Lugg .
The property was created by merging the manors of Hampton Richard and Hampton Mappenor. It was given by Henry IV to Sir Rowland Lenthall for the wedding of Margaret Fitzalan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and cousin of the king. Twelve years after he was knighted for his services in the Battle of Agincourt, Lenthall had the originally square mansion built in 1427. In 1434 he received the permission from Henry IV. To provide the house with battlements. Later it came to the Coningsby family and was then sold to the son of the inventor and textile entrepreneur Richard Arkwright , who was also called Richard. His son John arranged the renovation between 1830 and 1840 by Charles Hanbury-Tracy, who later became Baron Sudeley . The Arkwrights lived in Hampton Court until 1912. The wife of the 17th Viscount Hereford bought the property in 1924 and the family stayed here until 1973. Eventually the van Kampen family bought the house and transferred it to the Sola Scriptura Foundation .
Hampton Court is surrounded by 400 hectares of gardens and parks. A Victorian garden wall surrounds newly created flower gardens, which are criss-crossed by canals and winding paths. The kitchen garden is a formal garden with fruit and vegetables. There is a maze of a thousand yew trees with a Gothic tower in the middle, from the top of which one has a panoramic view over the gardens. In addition to numerous flower borders, there is a waterfall and a fifty-year-old arcade with wisteria in the lower part of the garden . Next to the castle is a greenhouse designed by Joseph Paxton that is now used as a restaurant.
The renovation of the buildings and the layout of the gardens took ecological aspects into account. The Hampton Court Trust was founded as an educational institution for research and teaching in the fields of usability of renewable and sustainable energy and technology.
Web links
- Information about Hampton Court (English)
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 6 ″ N , 2 ° 42 ′ 15 ″ W.