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The Lost Gardens of Heligan tel: 01726 845100 Area: Cornwall |
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| Visitor Information | www.heligan.com -- email: info {at} heligan.com |
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The Lost Gardens of Heligan |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||
Every Day (except Christmas Eve and Day; Main season 1st April - 30th Sept: 10.00am - 6.00pm (last tickets 4.30pm) |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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Best
Times of Year to Visit: All year around. |
To
see: Heligan is an all-season garden. |
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| Admission Prices | ||||||
| Adult £10; Child (over 5) £6; Over 60s £9; Family £27 for 2 adults and up to 3 children, Annual membership for member + guest £40p/a. Group rates: Adult £8; Child (over 5) £6; Over 60s £7 Group with guided tour: Adult £9; Child (over 5) £6; Over 60s £8 |
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| Onsite Facilities | ||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: Yes On Lead only: Yes Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: Licensed Restaurant. Dogs are only admitted between Oct - Mar, except Guide Dogs which are welcome all year. Silver Award for "Cafe of the year" |
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| Garden Features | ||||||
| Victorian Productive Gardens including Vegetable Garden, Melon Yard and walled Flower Garden. Pleasure Grounds including, Sundial Garden, the Ravine, the Northern Summerhouse, the Italian Garden, New Zealand Garden and Flora's Green. Sub-tropical Jungle, ancient woodlands, Lost Valley and a pioneering Wildlife Project. |
English Heritage Garden Grade: II | |||||
| National Collection: Camellias and rhododendrons introduced to Heligan pre-1920. | ||||||
| Description of Garden | Designer:
Henry Tremayne & the Tremayne family |
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| The world famous garden restoration is now complemented by a new pioneering wildlife conservation project, centred out in Heligan's Wider Estate. In excess of 200 acres of working Victorian gardens and pleasure grounds together with a magnificent complex of walled gardens including - pineapple pits, melon, citrus, peach and vine houses; Two acre productive Kitchen Garden; Crystal Grotto, Italian Garden, Sundial Garden, New Zealand Garden, Alpine Ravine, Bee Boles and Summerhouse Garden; 30-acre "Lost Valley", a natural woodland setting rich in wild flowers, ferns and ancient trees, where the lakeside air is frequently heavy with the scent of charcoal burning; 22-acre subtropical "jungle" valley where a boardwalk meanders past four pools, through the largest collection of Tasmanian tree ferns in Britain, exotic plants, giant trees and over sixty varieties of bamboo.Pioneering Wildlife Project offers an intimate view of native fauna. |
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| History of Garden | ||||||
| It was Henry Hawkins Tremayne (squire 1766-1829), father of Grace Tremayne, who created the shape of the gardens as we see them today. This happy man was a curate in Lostwithiel and unexpectedly inherited the estate. Within a fairly short time a cousin died leaving him the Croan estate near Wadebridge and in 1809 the Devon branch died out leaving him the Sydenham estates. He hired Thomas Gray to draw up a plan of the garden (pre 1810) which shows it almost exactly as it is now. Henry Hawkins was responsible for planting the major shelter belts. Having established the shape of the garden it was left to the three succeeding generations, who according to F. Hamilton Davey were noted horticulturalists, to build up the plant collections. Tim Smit masterminded its restoration in recent years. |
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| Nearby Cornwall Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | ||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Narg at Carne Beach Lodge at Carlyon Bay |
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| Inns & Pubs: Crown Inn at St Ewe |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Mevagissey & Gorran Haven |
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