Winchester Castle and Great Hall

The Great Hall, one of the finest surviving medieval halls which contains the legendary Round Table. The Round Table has been famous for centuries for its links with the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

 

Queen Eleanor’s Garden is a re-creation, by Dr Sylvia Landsberg, of an enclosed medieval garden and is named after Queen Eleanor of Provence and her daughter-in-law Queen Eleanor of Castile, who would have walked there and used it as their private retreat.

 

In medieval times gardens offered pleasure, repose and refreshment to the senses as well as food and medicine. Queen Eleanor’s Garden is an accurate example of such a garden and features turf seats, bay hedges, a fountain, tunnel arbour and many beautiful herbs and flowers of the time.

 

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