The first stage of a £6.7million plan to restore historic Regency landscape at the National Botanic Garden of Wales has been given the green light. What will be the biggest project in the garden’s history aims to uncover the origins of Middleton Hall – the 568-acre estate that the garden now occupies – and to tell the story of more than 250 years of East India Company influence that shaped the landscape of this part of Wales. It has been announced that the garden has received initial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) with a pledge of more than £300,000 to develop its plans for the Regency Restoration project. The scheme includes major archaeological work which will reveal the secrets of the estate from the time of Shakespeare and before, and see the restoration of the later Regency landscape that was one of the finest water parks in Britain. When completed, the garden will once more feature the necklace of seven lakes, cascades, falls and weirs created more than 200 years ago and again boast the Regency planting scheme that formed the heart of its parkland. National Botanic Garden of Wales: http://www.gardenofwales.org.uk/
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