Witley Court: Now a spectacular ruin, 100 years ago Witley Court was one of the great Victorian country houses of England. Witley Court is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building with work by John Nash and Samuel Dukes. The site includes 16 other connected Grade II listed buildings and a magnificent Grade 1 listed church attributed to James Gibbs.
The landscape and gardens are Grade II* on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest .
The damp hollow in the north west corner of the wilderness garden holds a population of the uncommon sedge Carex strigosa, Witley is also home to another uncommon sedge Carex vesicaria located in the wilderness at the front entrance.
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