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The South Glade stretches from the front drive to the East to the back drive on its Western edge.
The larger trees in this area are the remainders of the plantings created by the Reverend Hailstone in the late nineteenth century.
The short cut grass that forms the wide sweeping glade, serve to emphasize the humps and hollows which are all that remain of some of the outbuildings from the old Priory.
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Barry Jordan - © National Trust
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At its eastern edge the glade has a number of trees that merge into the Arboretum on the opposite side of the drive.
To the western edge a pair of sphinxes set high upon large pedestals guards the exit from the glade.
The view towards the House from here is spectacular, with a towering blue-green conifer forming a focal point to a mixed planting typical of the Abbey gardens.
The view in the other direction is through the Coronation Avenue to the borrowed landscape of the fen beyond.
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