The Great Fountain Garden at Hampton Court Palace, 2004

THE EAST GARDENS

In Henry VIII's time, this area [of Hampton Court Palace] was parkland but was gradually enclosed by the Stuarts and under William III was laid out as a great semicircular parterre with 12 marble fountains. Queen Anne (1702-14) added the surrounding semicircular canals in 1710.

The Great Fountain Garden

The Great Fountain Garden, as it is now known, has been much simplified since then and although many of the yew trees date from 1707, the overall layout is predominantly Victorian.

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