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Country & Garden: On holiday in a garden of ghosts Forget foreign travel and sunnier climes; the best way to get away from it all, says Jane Gardam, is in the haunted splendour of Nottinghamshire

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020316
Author:Jane Gardam

Aman's holiday is his garden," said Samuel Butler in 1878. He was born and brought up in Langar Rectory in Nottinghamshire, son of its well- connected rector. It is a fine house and then had extensive walled gardens and a big conservatory. There must have been at least one resident gardener, some gardener's boys and a lad to clean the head gardener's boots. There is a little pencil sketch, c1830, of the garden quite crowded with menials, one of them with a spade over his shoulder and wearing a sort of sombrero. Two baby sons of the house are being pushed jollily about in wheelbarrows. One is ...

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