The gardens we see today date from Elizabethan times, with a series of terraces leading down to the River Wye. This was a typical arrangement for a late Renaissance garden in England, which had been originally inspired by the gardens of Italian hill-top villas. Restored by the 9 th Duchess of Rutland in the 1920s; today an abundance of clematis and roses throw the old walls of Haddon into a kaleidoscope of colour, competing with thirty or forty varieties of delphiniums in the borders below.
