Description:The earliest plans for a walled kitchen garden at Shugborough date from 1800. By 1805 William Pitt described the gardens as 'well stored with the choicest of fruit trees...and many other varieties of hot-house fruits, flowers and plants'.
A gardener's house was added and the walled garden was surrounded by a Ha-Ha, within which trees were planted.
Today the gardener's house remains, and the garden is gradually being restored.
This photograph is from an album of local views taken by Edward King Tenison (1805-1878), a highly regarded photographer in the early decades of photography. His family seat was at Kilronen, Roscommon, Ireland and he married Louisa Mary Anne Anson, daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, also an accomplished amateur photographer. These images were probably taken during Tenison's visits to his wife's family home, Shugborough.