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Lyveden New Bield photo gallery
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©NTPL / Mark Bradshaw
Elizabethan spiral mount with Lyveden New Bield in the distance, Northamptonshire.
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©NTPL / Nick Meers
A view of the interior of the shell that is the New Bield. It shows what was probably to be the kitchen in the basement of the house. It was built for Sir Thomas Tresham, work ceased on the Elizabethan lodge upon his death in 1605.
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©NTPL / Nick Meers
A view of the interior of New Bield. It was built for Sir Thomas Tresham, work ceasing upon his death in 1605. It is an Elizabethan retreat or lodge, roofless and incomplete.
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©NTPL / Rowan Isaac
View towards the New Bield through woods and Elizabethan spiral mount.
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©NTPL / Mark Bradshaw
In 2000 restoration began on New Bield's Elizabethan moats by removing silt, returning them to a similar condition to when the workmen stopped digging 400 years earlier.
Before excavating the silt, core samples were removed. These yielded a series of small but significant, well preserved pollen samples. A number of the plants present require specific environments in which to thrive, therefore telling us a huge amount about what was going on in the landscape at the time when the deposit was laid down. These included the deepest deposits, dating from the Elizabethan age and containing species which must have been planted for their flowers, scent or medicinal qualities, including anenomes, meadowsweet, bur-marigold and roses.
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©NTPL / Mark Bradshaw
View of the overgrown raised terrace being cleared at Lyveden New Bield, Northamptonshire.
Trees were removed from the most sensitive parts of the site including the banks of the raised terrace, the sides of the four prospect mounds, and along the length of nearly 500 metres of moats encircling the site.
The gradual clearance allowed light to break through once again, enabling plants to grow and protect the earthworks as well as offering a magnificent show of violets, primroses and cowslips, all of which continue today.
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©NTPL / Nick Meers
The North Front of the House, in early morning light. Lyveden New Bield is an incomplete C16th.-C17th. retreat, built for Sir Thomas Tresham, upon whose death in 1605 work ceased.
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