Open Doors – Dr. Evan Pierce Memorial Garden, Denbigh

Dr Evan Pierce, coroner, JP, alderman, advisor to Queen Victoria and five times mayor of Denbigh. He was a hero of the 1832 cholera epidemic, where about ten per cent of the local population died. He also formed the Denbigh fire brigade. He donated land to himself, right opposite his front door and in the last twenty years of his life, he was able to look out at his own statue atop its 72­feet high Tuscan column. 

The garden, restored in both 2007 and 2022, is a small formal Victorian public garden with planting typical of its period.

The 2024 Denbigh Open Doors Weekend launches Friday 20th September 2024 with a geology evening lecture at the Theatr Twm o'r Nant. Over the following two days, Saturday and Sunday 21st and 22nd September 2024 from 10am to 5pm, around thirty historically important sites in the locale will be open to the public, supplemented by children’s workshops and guided tours. A booking service for the sites/workshops and guided tours offering a limited number of places will be available through Denbigh Library, closer to the start of the weekend.

Further information will be available on www.visitdenbigh.co.uk; https://twitter.com/OpenDoors_D and https://www.facebook.com/opendoorsdenbighshire/

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Getting there - from town centre, go down Vale Street and the garden can be seen on your right hand side. Buses 51, 52 to Denbigh.