Developed in the 1980s by Colin
Armstrong, the owner of Tupgill Park, in association with the architect Malcolm
Temptest the gardens were originally conceived as a private pleasure garden. The
Forbidden Corner consists of a number of follies, woodlands, walled gardens,
tunnels and grottoes furnished with statues, installations and other works of
art, architecture, animated models and various oddities largely drawn from the
European classical tradition, along with particular fancies of the proprietor
and architect
