Columbine Hall: a remarkable island garden on an ancient moated estate in Suffolk

And then to me, this garden has always been a garden of vistas.

Vistas sort of within the garden and then vistas out to the parkland beyond.

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That's-

So the parkland is 29 acres around?

It's 29 acres.

Well, the whole site is 29 acres.

Yes, 29 acres.

Yeah.

But we're very lucky to have, because we have the fields each, that surround the outside-

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... of the moat, it gave scope really-

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... to do all sorts of interesting vistas.

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Yeah.

But George Carter, who was the garden designer-

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... who did the-

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most of the design for us-

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he designed all this formal part of the garden.