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THE
ASSAM GARDEN filming locations
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CREDITS
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Deborah
Kerr (in her first film since 1969ís The
Arrangement ) is a widow who, returning to
England from Assam, tends an Eastern garden planted
by her late husband.
Locations had been scouted from
Kew Gardens in Richmond up to the west coast of Scotland
(where semi-tropical plants flourish in the warm Gulf
Stream) when the film company found an ideal two-acre
exotic wild garden, dating from 1910, which had been
laid out, just as in the story, by a returnee from India.
Priors Mesne, overlooking the Severn Estuary
near Aylburton,
four miles south of Lydney in the Forest of Dean, appeared
as the subject of the 1899 book A Gloucestershire Wild
Garden and so impressed writer Elizabeth Bond as a girl
that it inspired her to write The Assam Garden.
The
garden is privately owned and not normally open to the
public, though it may be possible to visit through the
National Gardens Scheme, where many
private gardens are open to the public for one day a
year.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR THE
ASSAM GARDEN
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