Happy Valley Tea Estate is a tea garden

Tea garden

Tea garden may refer to:* Roji, gardens surrounding Japanese tea houses and which form part of the architecture associated with Japanese tea ceremony* Tea plantations, where tea bushes are cultivated...

 in Darjeeling district

Darjeeling district

Darjeeling District is the northernmost district of the state of West Bengal in eastern India in the foothills of the Himalayas. The district is famous for its beautiful hill stations and Darjeeling tea. Darjeeling is the district headquarters...

 in the India

India

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n state of West Bengal

West Bengal

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. The estate was established in 1854. David Wilson, an Englishman, had named the garden Wilson Tea Estate and by 1860 had started cultivation of tea. In 1903, the estate was taken over by an Indian, Tarapada Banerjee, an aristocrat from Hooghly. In 1929, Banerjee bought the Windsor Tea Estate nearby, and merged the two estates under the name of Happy Valley Tea Estate. G.C. Banerjee was the next owner of Happy Valley Tea Estate. He with his wife Annapurna Devi and three daughters (Nonimukhi, Monmaya and Savitri) lived there for some time. Annapurna Devi was related to the Ganguly family of Khandwa; her maternal uncle was Kunjalal Bihari, father of the famous cine Gangulys.

The bushes in the garden are very old — the minimum age is 80 years, and some are 150 years old. Very few re-plantation has been done in the recent past. This tea estate is the closest tea estate to Darjeeling town, and tourists often visit the garden.

The tea produced by Happy Valley is sold by Harrods

Harrods

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 in UK and Mariage Freres

Mariage Frères

Mariage Frères is a French tea company, based in :Paris. It was founded on 1 June 1854 by brothers Henri and Edouard Mariage.-References:*...

in France.