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I love visiting English gardens, and not just because they're beautiful to look at and relaxing to wander through. To me, they're also a piece of living history, an idea shaped through the ages, forever changing.And what we today consider a stunning architectural feature or a plot to delight the senses, might once have been important to the survival of the household.In the Middle Ages, gardens played an important part in the management of a manor house.Here the lady grew herbs both for the kitchen and for doctoring the household, for scenting linen, for strewing and for helping with the washing and dying of cloth. Vegetables or 'sallets' to augment the diet were also grown.Not many medieval gardens have survived, but properties like Glastonbury Abbey, Gloucester Cathedral and a number of historical houses have re-created medieval-style herb gardens within their grounds.