Garden
and Grounds

The Garden and Grounds

The garden, grounds and conservatory are there for our guests to use and enjoy.

The plot covers about four acres. This includes:

• one acre garden



• two and a half acres planted with trees in 1995



• a duck pond



• and a strip adjacent to the canal which floods each winter

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The Pocklington Canal

The canal forms a 200m border with our plot. The area next to it is alowed to grow wild for the benefit of wildlife. The canal supports swans, ducks, and moorhens, and the floodplains between it and the Derwent, known as the Ings, are populated by many varieties of aquatic bird. There are several bird sanctuaries nearby.

The Garden

The garden was just a field in 1992. it has grown a lot since then and the extra cover it provides has helped increase the number of birds enormously. We added the conservatory to the house to enable us to enjoy the garden in the evenings and when its cool outside.

In the evening you can see swallows and bats feeding on insects in the air, and our resident barn owl flying over the hedgerows in search of food. The swallows nest in the outbuildings every year.

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