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Bickleigh Vale Centenary

This decade, the 2020s, The Friends of Bickleigh Vale are celebrating the centenary of the village established by the landscape designer, Edna Walling.

This blog will focus on her vision and her legacy and many things in between. ​There will also be posts exploring some of the challenges we are facing as time and climate change in particular impact our gardens.

A century on...

2/6/2022

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It is just on 100 years since Edna Walling bought the land on which she built her home Sonning and established a nursery as a base for her work as a landscape designer. And 100 years since she started "devising an adventure in rural development", a community of gardeners living in an English-style village. In 1923 she purchased land adjacent to her own property that she subdivided and sold to people wishing to be involved in her vision. She called the village Bickleigh Vale.
I wonder how she would see her legacy a century later.

#bickleighvale100years
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Sonning, 2022.
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Bickleigh Vale Rd, May 2022.
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    • Glencairn
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    • Mousehole
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