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Henry Woodman, his father, his brother and his son were gardeners in Strand on the Green in the 18th century. However, the women of the family were also skilled at running a gardening business, especially Henry’s mother Esther and his long-lived wife, Eleanor.
Nicholas Parker was a wealthy gardener who lived on Strand on the Green. After his death in 1726, his bequests to Henry Woodman and his future wife Eleanor Compton, and to other members of the Compton family, ensured the continuation of the garden grounds in skilled hands.
Several generations of the Masters family, including women gardeners, cultivated garden grounds in Strand on the Green and London Stile in Chiswick and Acton parishes in the 17th and 18th centuries.