Sources: John Thorneycroft, nelsongarden.co.uk, parksandgardens.org
All images © John Thorneycroft
In 1802 Horatio Nelson, a national and international hero following his defeat of the fleet of the French Republic at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, passed through Monmouth in the company of Sir William and Lady Emma Hamilton. He visited the Naval Temple at The Kymin and a grand dinner was given in his honour at the Beaufort Arms, after which the party retired to the garden of Colonel Lindsay for the remainder of the evening. Though located in the centre of Monmouth, this hidden Georgian garden has survived and to a large extent been restored
An engraving of the original Memorial Pavilion, which was built in the mid 19th Century
Continual and necessary restoration work means that today little of the pavilion's original fabric survives
Conversely, the somewhat unusual Lord Nelson Seat is by all accounts the original upon which Nelson actually sat
The statue of Britannia is a copy of one at The Kymin Naval Temple
Some of the plaques that commemorate British admirals, similar to those at The Kymin
The garden contains a rare surviving example of a hot wall. Hot air from an oven travelled through a system of horizontal flues, helping to extend the growing season of certain varieies of fruit such as figs
Fruit grown in the Nelson Garden
Nelson sweet peas and Emma Hamilton roses, grown in the Nelson Garden
The unveiling of a new commemorative plaque in 2009
