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Japanese Garden, Eskdale Green
Japanese Garden
locality:-   Eskdale Green
civil parish:-   Eskdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   garden
coordinates:-   NY13980030 (etc, roughly) 
1Km square:-   NY1300
10Km square:-   NY10


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BYF48.jpg (taken 27.4.2013)  
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BYF52.jpg (taken 27.4.2013)  

hearsay:-  
The garden was possibly designed by Thomas Mawson for the Rea Family of Gatehouse Estate, 1913. There is no evidence but family anecdote.
Its present state (2013) is not very happy, but local interest is alive and doing something about it.


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BYF49.jpg (taken 27.4.2013)  
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BYF50.jpg (taken 27.4.2013)  
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BYF51.jpg (taken 27.4.2013)  


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BYF47.jpg (taken 27.4.2013)  

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