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Oct 07, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHS SHEILA SIM
On the outskirts of Haddington in East Lothian, tucked away unobtrusively behind a little-used country road, lies Amisfield Walled Garden. Its unassuming location gives nothing away, but when you walk for the first time through the gate in the wall, the scale of what lies before you is enough to make you gasp.
Dating from the 18th century, this is one of the largest walled gardens in Scotland. It was built in the 1780s to impress guests of the seventh Earl of Wemyss and to provide a constant supply of fresh fruit and vegetables for his mansion, Amisfield House. The Earl’s desire to provoke envy is evidenced not only by the size of the garden, but also by the
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