In 1982 we decided to create a new garden historically sympathetic to the house and visually effective when viewed both from the raised walkway and also from the windows of the house across the moat. There are two knot patterns planted in box. Each pattern is divided into four squares; the one on the south side is inter- planted with herbs. Two of the opposite squares show the pattern of the Tollemache fret, the other two patterns showing our initials, a ‘T’ and an ‘A’. The interstices contain plants introduced into Britain before 1750.