The Battle of Northampton was fought across these grounds on 10 July 1460, a Yorkist victory in the Wars of the Roses that ended with Henry VI captured. Delapré Abbey itself began as a Cluniac nunnery around 1145, one of only two in England. The walled garden stands on the old nuns’ burial ground, where some of the battle’s dead were laid. House and gardens are open to visitors on the edge of Northampton, and the walled garden is free to enter.
