The ruins of Edwinsford mansion (nprn 249) are located in parkland in the Cothi valley (700055). The house is linked by a bridge to utility buildings on the opposite side of the river (see 26613), and amongst these is a walled garden, dating from the early nineteenth century. .

The garden is an irregular six-sided enclosure of some 6.5 acres (longest side on the B4337) but with various sub-divisions, bounded by walls up to 3m high. Cottages and other utilitarian buildings and their garden enclosures form most of the north-west and north-eastern boundary. The main entrance is towards the north-west corner, close to Garden Cottage. The garden had more than a utilitarian function having been sub-divided into smaller pleasure gardens with walls and hedges. The western part is divided from the more north-eastern section by a substantial box hedge that is now so overgrown it forms a tunnel. Near the south corner, outside the home farm, is a sundial. Beyond this dividing tunnel to the north-east are the remains of a small pleasure garden comprising a series of beds forming a pattern and edged with box. All that remains now are some overgrown box plants.

Areas of glass shown on the 1906 Second Edition Ordnance Survey against the north-western wall are still there but derelict.

Source:
Cadw 2002: Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, 18-21 (ref: PGW(Dy)8(CAM)).

RCAHMW, 3 March 2022

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Edwinsford Walled Garden, Talley