Garden at rear of Lowewood Museum

We begin in the garden to the right hand side behind Lowewood House.

A house was built here in the mid-17th century. In about 1750 part of it was demolished and the present house was built. From the rear the difference in ceiling heights of the phases of building can be appreciated. From 1836 until 1936 Lowewood was owned by members of the Warner family. Lowewood was given to the town in 1936 by Douglas Day Taylor in memory of his wife, to be used as a library and Museum. The library relocated to the centre of Hoddesdon in 1977. Lowewood is now the Borough of Broxbourne Museum, and houses a wealth of information, images and objects telling the story of the borough. The Samaritan Woman statue stands in Lowewood garden just to the north of the building. This statue was originally erected in the centre of Hoddesdon and delivered a supply of drinking water for the town’s inhabitants.

Walk through the garden and turn left past concrete blocks into Woodlands Close.