Elizabethan Garden, Kenilworth Castle, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
For more than 400 years, the magnificent Elizabethan garden at Kenilworth Castle was lost to the world. In May 2009, it was re-created for all to enjoy once more. It was originally created for Queen Elizabeth I by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester at a time when he still hoped to marry her. It was a garden designed to seduce and beguile its visitors. Using advances in garden archaeology, along with the survival of an extraordinary eye-witness description from 1575, it was possible to re-create the sights, sounds and scents that would have greeted Queen Elizabeth I when she first walked its paths, as she made her progress around England. This site is in the care of English Heritage (2011).
