Danescourt Cemetery Japanese garden, Tettenhall, U.K.

This particular Japanese garden was created in 1996 by a local man, Peter Bridges, and was included with the new administration block as an area of quiet contemplation. Japanese Garden Society members discovered it in 2009 in an overgrown state, and negotiated with the council to conduct a programme of restoration and ongoing maintenance.

The original conception of a Japanese garden was to create an idyllic environment that would ‘tempt the deities down from heaven’ to dwell in proximity to human beings.

The Japanese Garden Society now maintain this garden on a monthly basis and since Covid, this is now available to view.