A busy week for boundaries

The new ha-ha has just been completed! We have finished adding the last few courses of stone and laid coping stones to finish the last section of wall, which looks lovely and is much more in keeping and discreet compared to the wooden post and rail fence it replaced.

We have also now started work restoring our historic boundaries around parts of the arboretum. Blacksmiths have now straightened and repaired parts of the cast iron fence at Down Gate and this week sees another team of contractors back on site installing a new mild steel strained wire fence. The fence, which runs parallel with Mitchell Drive, is replacing a modern post and wire fence.

The new strained wire fence has been designed to match other traditional strained wire fences found in other parts of the Westonbirt Estate and which you can also see in this old photo. This style of fence is less obtrusive aesthetically than modern stock fences; which will mean visitors will be able to view the Downs as Holford once did.

We will soon be reinstating a dry stone ha-ha by the roadside and repairing our original iron estate fence. Keep checking the Westonbirt Project pages for current photos of the work as it happens.