Upton Grey

Upton Grey

Upton Gley is a village in Hampshire, England.

Geographic Location

Upton Grey is located near to Basingstoke to the North-West. There are various other villages located in all directions around the village:

*South Warnborough - to the East
*Greywell and Odiham - to the North-East
*Herriard - to the South

Village Amenities

There are various amenities in the vilage including a Village Shop and Post Office, Church, Village Hall, Duck Pond and a War Memorial located to the front of the Church.

History

Name

The Grey derives from the years when the village was owned by the de Grey family and was used to differentiate the village from the many other Uptons.

The Manor House

Charles Holme purchased several houses and a great deal of the surrounding land in Upton Grey. The Old Manor House, which he rented to tenants for the rest of his life, was in fragile condition. Holme then commissioned the local architect Ernest Newton to refurbish it, keeping many of the original timbers. Today's Edwardian decoration encloses oak rooms, a 16th century staircase and original roof timbers. Newton's house was finished in 1907.

Gertrude Jekyll drew plans for a four and a half acre garden. On this site she drew up one of her most picturesque gardens. It includes many features of a typical Jekyll garden but is much smaller scale than the majority of her other commissions.

To the west of the house is the Wild garden. Some of Jekyll's original drifts of daffodils remain at the end of the Wild Garden, still in the drifts she designed.

To the east of the house stands there is the formal garden. Here there are no curved lines, Jekyll designed a Rose Lawn and typical herbaceous borders whose colours run in drifts from cool to hot and the return to cool again. These, with the tennis and bowling lawns are enclosed in yew hedging.

Outside the hedging lies the nuttery, orchard, kitchen garden, stable cottage and cottage beds.

The whole of the garden has been faithfully restored to the many plans and plants that Jekyll prescribed. The garden fell into disrepair and was only restored twenty-one years ago

External links

* [http://www.google.com/maphp?hl=en&tab=wl&q=Upton%20Grey,%20Hampshire,%20RG25,%20UK Google Maps]


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