 An article in the "Gardeners' Chronicle", 1907, indicates that the period 1870s – 1890s there was a great deal of planting both of plants and trees.A Dutch garden is described in what was originally the chalk pit (shown on early, old maps).The title of Lord Dorchester became extinct in 1897, but Henrietta Anne Carleton (by then Mrs Leir-Carleton), daughter of the last Lord Dorchester, applied for reinstatement of the title, which was granted by Queen Victoria in 1899.