Landscape record 0653700000 - East Burnham House

In 1844 the owner of the house purchased Popple's Park which extended over 87 acres. There was an orangery and a kitchen garden next to the house, and lawns. The modern map shows the house to have been encroached upon by another building. On the whole the garden seems to have retained its basic shape although the parkland appears to have shrunk (B1).
The remains of the garden and park laid out for Sir Harry Veitch (1840‐1924) as a horticultural showpiece for his country villa. He was the most eminent nurseryman and horticulturist of the later C19‐early C20. When he died he was said to be: ‘the most outstanding figure in contemporary horticulture, and during the last fifty years no one has exercised so great an influence on all things pertaining to gardening’. The detached pleasure ground is associated with the renowned rock garden designer F.W. Meyer, whose plan for a Bog Garden (c.1900) survives. Although fragmented, a considerable amount of the fabric and planting established by Sir Harry by the time of his death here in 1924 survives, but some has been lost to development and mineral working in places. See report for detail (B2).