Terraced Gardens, Rivington

The original gardens were created to serve a home called the Bungalow (demolished in 1948) belonging to Leverhulme, a founder of Lever Brothers, today known as Unilever. The site has surviving stone structures that formed part of the Italian-style gardens designed by Thomas Mawson between 1905 and 1922. Inspired by Villa d’Este near Rome, its design features in his book 'The Art and Craft of Garden Making, published in 1912. There were four lodge houses acting as gatehouses of the grounds. Three were small prefabricated cottage-style properties, the fourth was Stone House Lodge, which had a design with an archway incorporated and build over the entrance. Roynton Cottage was built on the…

Although the Terraced Gardens are not part of Lever Park a large area has right to roam and there is a public footpath, although officially never closed the trust charges admission during events and part is used for private hire, at which time public access is blocked. The lower section of the grounds, the ravine is usually freely accessible for members of the public. After the demolition in 1948 for half a century, the public could roam the whole site at will. Rivington former Japanese and Kitchen Gardens within the Bungalow Grounds are now part of an extensive area of open access land recorded at Lancashire County Council and has a right to roam protected by the statutory powers in the…