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About Benvarden Gardens
Bought by the Montgomery family in the late eighteenth century, it was transformed into a modern – for those days, Walled garden with the bawn wall faced with brick, the height raised to the present 16 ft. and paths and beds laid out. Also, around that time, or slightly later, a Vinery, a Melon house, tomato houses and a mushroom house were created. These are still in the garden and productive.
From the pond, paths lead to the banks of the River Bush, well-known as the river which leads to the Bushmills Distillery, the world's oldest whiskey, and here the river is spanned by a splendid bridge, built by Robert James Montgomery, who survived the charge of the Heavy Brigade in the Crimean war.
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