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Hough Hole 'allegorical' garden

In the mid-19th century, James Mellor Junior remodelled the garden at Hough Hole House to allow visitors to relive the journey of Christian in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Features of the garden and the surroundings became places in the book - the nearby farmhouse was the Doubting Castle; a summer house containing an aeolian harp was the Howling House. The garden fell into decay between the 1920s and 1970s, but have since been restored by Mr and Mrs Humphreys.