Site of 17th century formal garden at Audley End House (EHER 82896)

Part of the 17th century formal gardens of Audley Park are visible as slight earthworks in lidar data. The site comprises an L-shaped bank which is flanked to the south and east by narrow ditches which continue westwards. They appear to correspond with the south-eastern corner of formal gardens and a rectangular pond which were laid out in the 17th century and are marked on Winstanley's ground plan of 1688.

NRHE data transfer: Part of the 17th century formal gardens of Audley Park are visible as slight earthworks in lidar data. The site is centred at TL 5234 3824 and comprises an L-shaped bank which is flanked to the south and east by narrow ditches which continue westwards. They appear to correspond with the south-eastern corner of formal gardens and a rectangular pond which were laid out in the 17th century and are marked on Winstanley's ground plan of 1688. Bridgeman's map of about 1725 suggests the south-eastern corner of the pond was softened and the curved angle on the inside (north-west) of the L-shape bank appears to reflect this. The formal gardens were removed during later 18th century landscaping of the Park. <1> - <3> Earthworks in this area were recorded in more detail during analytical earthwork survey of this area. <4>