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20. The Orchard & Warneford Meadow
To your left you will see the orchard, still featuring some of the apple trees originally planted in the 1820s. The orchards were part of the working farm on the Warneford site.
Beyond the orchard is Warneford Meadow, an area of land purchased in 1918 to supplement the amount of land available to patients for walks and also as a precautionary measure to prevent the land from being built on, which would have compromised patient privacy. Warneford Meadow is particularly important to the local community; local residents fought hard to protect it in 2006, and the meadow now has Town Green status.
Image: photo of the orchard from 1938 and/or aerial view of WH from 1928 showing the farm and the orchard/Warneford Meadow
