Developed in the 1980s by Colin Armstrong, the owner of Tupgill Park, in association with the architect Malcolm Temptest the gardens were originally conceived as a private pleasure garden. The Forbidden Corner consists of a number of follies, woodlands, walled gardens, tunnels and grottoes furnished with statues, installations and other works of art, architecture, animated models and various oddities largely drawn from the European classical tradition, along with particular fancies of the proprietor and architect
