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Mellor's Gardens
Mellor's Gardens are the gardens of Hough Hole House and are located to the northwest of the village of Rainow, Cheshire, England. They were created by James Mellor, a local industrialist, their design being inspired by the teaching of Emanuel Swedenborg, and are a representation of John Bunyan's ''The Pilgrim's Progress''. Having been neglected in the 20th century, they have been restored and are open to visitors by arrangement. The gardens are listed at Grade II in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, and contain a number of Grade II listed buildings.
==History==
James Mellor senior moved into Hough Hole House with his family in 1786. Mellor was a cotton manufacturer who was planning to build a new cotton mill nearby in the Ingersley Valley. His eldest son, also called James, had been born the previous year. Mellor senior died in 1828 and his son inherited the house and grounds. Mellor junior was a follower of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher, one of whose concepts was that the natural world is an allegory of the spiritual world. Following this concept, he designed gardens around his house based on John Bunyan's ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', an allegory describing the spiritual journey of a Christian through his life.〔 Mellor described the gardens as "a Garden of Correspondence relating to things of the World and Scriptural History". He built the gardens himself, without help from staff or hired help. The gardens were open to the public, and were visited by thousands of people, remaining open for some years after Mellor's death in 1891. In the 1920s the house and gardens were rented, and later owned, by two schoolteacher sisters, the Misses Russell. They added plants to the gardens, keeping its basic plan, but by the time that the second Miss Russell died, the gardens has become neglected.〔 In 1978 the gardens were acquired by Gordon and Ruth Humphries who, with the help of the county archaeologist, restored the gardens to their former state. In the 1990s they were taken over by the Rigby family. The gardens remain in private ownership, and are open to the general public on advertised dates and by appointment.
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