Compton Acres (garden)

Poole, United Kingdom

Compton Acres is a large privately owned garden in Poole, Dorset, England. It was founded in 1920 by Thomas William Simpson, an entrepreneur who had become wealthy through the manufacture of margarine. The site overlooks Poole Harbour and Brownsea Island. Compton Acres consists of five themed sub-gardens: an Italian garden, a rock and water garden, a heather garden, a Japanese garden and a less formal woodland garden called the "Wooded Valley". Since 1986, Compton Acres has been Grade II* listed. The gardens are a popular tourist attraction: its Historic England listing details suggest that the gardens were "probably conceived" with tourism in mind.

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