154 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
Secretary to the Admiralty, who owned the place for a 
few short years. Nearly every vestige of the surround¬ 
ings of the old manor was obliterated and improved away 
by Humphrey Repton, the celebrated landscape gardener. 
He filled up most of the old moat, except a small piece, 
which was transformed into a lake, more in harmony 
with the landscape school to which he belonged. This 
piece of water is a pretty feature in the Park, and an 
attempt has been made to recall the older style, by intro¬ 
ducing a little formal garden in an angle of the enclosing 
wall of the Park. The square has been completed with 
two hedges, one of them of holly, and good iron gates 
afford an entrance. The “ old English garden,” from 
which dogs and young children, unless under proper 
supervision, are excluded, is laid out in good taste—a 
simple, suitable design, with appropriate masses of roses 
and herbaceous plants, arches with climbers, and an 
abundance of seats. It has the same misleading notice 
with regard to Shakespearian plants, as in Golder’s Hill 
and Brockwell, one of the South London Parks, which 
must now be looked at. 
