Mona Vale Garden Park
Riverside Edwardian estate gardens with a mill pond, historic fernery, lily pond and rhododendrons.
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This guide to Mona Vale Garden Park in Christchurch follows the water first: the Avon River, an old mill weir and the pond it left behind. It then turns to Annie Quayle Townend, the heiress who renamed the estate in nineteen oh five, and to a very unusual thing she decided to buy. Best heard standing on the riverbank near the mill pond.
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