Newarke Houses Museum
The Newarke Houses Museum is a public museum in Leicester, England. It incorporates the museum of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment. It occupies two buildings: Wyggeston's Chantry House (built circa 1511), and Skeffington House (built in the seventeenth century).
The gardens of the museum are laid out on separate sides of the main building which has an extension into the garden. These are laid to box hedges in medieval style maze-like geometric patterns. The garden was stocked in Victorian times with a variety of exotic trees and other plants, several of which survive to the present day. The end wall of the garden has holes in it made by cannon fire in the English civil war when Prince Rupert was besieging the town, which was under the control of Cromwell's troops, the Roundheads.
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Coordinates: 52°37′54″N 1°08′21″W / 52.631621°N 1.139193°W