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{{about|the British mansion|Benjamin Chew's mansion in Germantown, Pennsylvania|Cliveden (Benjamin Chew House)}}
[[Image:Cliveden-2382.jpg|thumb|400px|View looking north from the Ring in the Parterre showing Terrace Pavilion and Clock Tower to the left with Lower Terrace and Borghese Balustrade below]]

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==Gardens and grounds==
[[File:Cliveden parterre, central, from terrace.jpg|300px|thumb|left|The parterre from the terrace]]
The estate extends to {{convert|375|acre|km2}} of which about {{convert|180|acre|km2}} comprise the gardens, the rest being [[woodland]] and paddocks.

The formal [[parterre]] to the South of the house is one of the largest in Europe at {{convert|4|acre|m2}}.<ref name='Llewellyn123'>{{Harvnb|Llewellyn|1989|p=123}}</ref> It consists of clipped [[
Taxus baccata|yew]] pyramids and wedge-shaped beds edged with box hedging and filled with [[catnip]] and seasonal planting.  The Long Garden  consists of [[topiary]] in the form of corkscrew-spirals, peacocks and box hedges and was designed by [[Norah Lindsay]] in c.1900.  The Water Garden was laid out by the [[John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever|1st Lord Astor]] in c.1900 and features a [[pagoda]], on an island, bought from the [[Chateau de Bagatelle|Bagatelle]] estate in [[Paris]]. The planting there is mostly S(contracted; show full)

===Maze===
The original Cliveden [[maze]], commissioned by Lord Astor in 1894, is undergoing restoration, after having lain overgrown and inaccessible since the 1950s, with a view to opening it to the public in 2011.<ref>[http://maidenheadadvertiser.co.uk/m/leisure/article-10205-new-maze-for-cliveden/   Maidenhead Advertiser website. Last accessed 12/03/10]</ref> It will be replanted with 1,100 six-foot-tall [[
Taxus baccata|yew]] trees.

==="Cliveden snail"===
In 2004, a colony of small Mediterranean land snails of the species ''[[Papillifera bidens]]'' was discovered living on the Borghese Balustrade. Presumably this species, new to the English fauna, was accidentally imported along with the balustrade in the late 19th century, and managed to survive the intervening winters to the present day.<ref>name="Sharpe">Janet Rideout Sharpe.March 2005.[http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eaydin(contracted; show full)[[Category:Historic house museums in Buckinghamshire]]

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