Highcliffe Castle Phase 7 - Landscaping Works

Highcliffe Castle is a Grade 1 Listed building, constructed in the early 1830s. The grounds incorporated both pre-existing landscape features which formed part of the earlier 1770s ‘Capability’ Brown landscape as well as a far more extensive area of open countryside to the west of the Castle, an area now known as Rothesay Park, and further west, Steamer Point Nature Reserve. The grounds are not listed on the Register of Parks and Gardens, but are still of major historic importance, and the trees in both Castle Gardens and Rothesay Park are covered by various Tree Preservation Orders. The works planned internally and externally will make the building more accessible and interesting to visitor…

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