Langtons Gardens are a picturesque landscaped garden with a lake, orangery, bath house and a gazebo, all dating from the end of the 18th century, when Hornchurch was rural.

The grounds were and landscaped according to plans of Humphrey Repton. He created the serpentine pond with the bathhouse and gazebo and planted horse chestnuts to frame the mid-18th century stables, to which he added an octagonal cupola. A shrubbery walk with serpentining paths was planted east of the house. A Cedar of Lebanon was planted as a central feature of the lawn. By 1805 the gardens were sufficiently advanced to be illustrated in Peacock’s Polite Repository.

Langtons was given to Hornchurch Urban District Council by Varco Williams and his daughter in 1929, under the condition that the grounds remained open to the public.

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