The Ha-ha features as a stop in our Bromley Town Centre Park Trail, here.
The Ha-ha remained a fashionable feature of a stately home’s grounds for many years, because it also had a practical value. Instead of some ugly fence and wall, necessary to keep out local livestock and deer, that spoiled the vista from your windows, you had a ha-ha instead.
Like other ha-ha’s that James Pulham built, this ha-ha followed the line of an existing water course. There were ponds underneath the ‘Y’ buildings and this was the line of a pond/stream that drained them down the valley:
The page on the Bromley Palace Park, including the other historical features, is here.
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