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18 Jul 2022

Design a Shaw House Garden!

Shaw House(link is external) is West Berkshire Council’s beautiful Elizabethan house(link is external), built near Newbury by the Dolman family in 1581. It has a Grade II Registered Park and Garden(link is external). 

Become a garden archaeologist by drawing and colouring in your own garden based on the geometric design it had on the Speen Manor map of 1729, when it belonged to the first Duke of Chandos!

Download your copy from: https://www.westberkshireheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Shaw-House-garden.pdf(link is external) and share your design with us on Facebook @WestBerkshireHeritage or Twitter @WbHeritage with the hashtags #ShawHouse.

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