Landscape record 0839001000 - Chalfont Centre

Summary

Late nineteenth to twentieth century landscaped hospital grounds

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • GARDEN (19th Century to Modern - 1894 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Epileptic colony laid out within therapeutic landscape of flower gardens, shruberies, orchards and market gardens, with sreening belts of trees designed to provide privacy. Description (B1, B3).
NGR to centre.

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC22207 Unpublished document: Sarah Rutherford. 2003. The Landscape of Public Lunatic Asylums in England, 1808-1914. Vol 2.
  • <3>SBC22209 Article in serial: Sarah Rutherford. 2001. 'A Therapeutic Bucks Landscape', in The Bucks Gardener No.11. Issue 11.

Location

Grid reference TQ 00453 92529 (point)
Civil Parish CHALFONT ST. PETER, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Mar 7 2014 4:19PM

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