Gravetye's most notable owner, William Robinson, one of the greatest gardeners of all time, bought the Manor and the thousand acres in which it stands in 1884, and it was his home until he died well into his nineties in 1935. It was at Gravetye that he realised many of his ideas for the creation of the English natural garden, the

style of which is now admired and copied all over the world, but of which Robinson in the nineteenth century was a pioneer.

Full history available on request to Andrew Russell - Director