Creation of the Garden The origin of the Dorothy Clive Garden has a heart-warming story behind it. About a husbands love for his ailing wife. Colonel Harry Clive’s wife Dorothy, had failing health due to Parkinson’s disease. As a result she couldn’t venture far from the house, but did like to have a regular walk. To make her walks more interesting than just a stroll around the lawn, he decided to develop the overgrown gravel pit, into woodland walks. Sadly Dorothy died just a couple of years after the work started, but apparently she was involved in some of the planting and did get pleasure from the newly created woodland…