vineyard

I picked up a copy of, “Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society” (Volume 59 from 1926) a few years ago. It contains an article about the Castell Coch vineyard by Andrew Alexander Pettigrew. Andrew Pettigrew’s father, also called Andrew, was Lord Bute’s Head Gardener and responsible for the creating the vineyard. Andrew followed his two …

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There are 31 vineyards in Wales and 739 in England, according to WineGB’s 2020 report. In the late 19th century, however, wine was imported from Europe and there were no commercial vineyards in Britain. The Experiment Began This changed in 1873, when Lord Bute asked his head gardener, Mr Andrew Pettigrew, to plant a vineyard …

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