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Heligan |
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Heligan tel: 01726 845100 Area: Cornwall |
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| Visitor Information | www.heligan.com | ||||||||||||
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| Heligan Cornwall All details updated* as of: 20/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
Every Day (except Christmas Eve and Day; Main season Mar - Oct: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 £8.50; Child (over 5) £5; Over 60s £7.50; Family £23.50 for 2 adults and up to 3 children, Annual membership for member + guest £30p/a. Group rates available, call for info. |
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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 Nov - Feb, except Guide Dogs which are welcome all year. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| English Heritage Garden Grade: II | |||||||||||||
| National Collection: | |||||||||||||
| Description of Garden | Designer:
Henry Tremayne |
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| Gardeners' World "The Nation's Favourite Garden" 2002. 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. Heligan Home Farm and Horsemoor Hide invite visitors to witness the outer estate being brought back into "good heart". |
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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 |
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