The formal gardens were initiated by a local mining baron in the late 18th Century, who planted conifers and planned the landscaping. Over the coming decades, his family added a walled garden, glasshouse, "melon yard" (a flattened greenhouse for melons), and pineapple pit – an ingenious method of growing the fruit in the chilly UK temperatures, involving trenches filled with manure that warms them up as it decomposes.
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