More information : In the diary of Lady Anne Clifford dated 31 Jan 1676 there is a
reference to work undertaken on a garden at Brougham Castle (1a);
this was apparently on the SE side of the castle beyond the moat
(1b). At some time before 1789, it was planted with trees (1c).
The garden was identified by RCHME as a rectangular area centred at
NY 5378 2897 and surveyed at 1:500 scale in the course of the
Brougham Castle Survey in 1990-1, and described in greater detail
during a further inspection in November 1995 (RCHME: Brougham Castle
Field Observation). The west wall survives as a consolidated wall,
where it has been exposed crossing the moat, and elsewhere as a turf
covered bank and outer ditch. There are the fragmentary remains of a
structure in the SW corner. The south boundary, which overlaid the N
rampart of the Roman fort of BROCAVUM (see NY 52 NW 6), and the east
side of the garden alongside the public road are no longer visible. A
bank extending E-W from the fence of a bungalow to the SE angle of
the castle moat is probably the N boundary of the garden suggesting
that it measured about 160m by 45m. It now contains a small number of
mature trees and some recent plantings, but a number of stumps and
depressions indicate that this area was once more heavily wooded (1).
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