A stone circle is the newest attraction for visitors to Gatton Park.

Each of the 10 three-metre high sculptures, called Millennium Stones, is engraved with text taken at 200-year intervals from the birth of Christ.

The Caithness stones, designed by artist Richard Kindersley, are on the north side of the park and were inaugurated in a special ceremony on Wednesday last week.

The ceremony included the official reopening of the Dry Arch. This stone and brick arch had been boarded up after it deteriorated and became too dangerous to use.

But it is now restored and once more an important link in the Capability Brown walk around the south side of the park, enabling people to avoid the series of steps down then up again into the rock garden.

The view from the arch has also been improved, thanks to the work of tree surgeon Ted Powell.

Gatton Park will be open to the public on Sunday, April 4, from 1pm-5pm. Entrance is £3 and children under age 16 go free.

Free guided tours will take place at 1.30pm and 2pm and take around one-and-a-half hours. There will be a shorter tour to the gardens only at 2.30pm.