Took a short trip yesterday to Caversham Court Gardens, located in sunny Reading and one of those places I've driven past so many times without venturing in. Well that's now been put right.
The property had been given to the people of the town around 100 years back; sadly the manor house had become unsafe and shortly after WWII had to be demolished. The most recent manor had been built by the Simmonds family (about 1550) who had also operated one of the first breweries in the town from the site. Prior to that an older manor had stood on the site as part of an estate given to a loyal baron by William the Conqueror.
While the buildings are mostly gone, the gardens which run down to the Thames river have been returned close to their former glory. Here's some images I managed to capture. You can still see the Norman church which (as was often the case) was associated with the
manor.
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