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Penshurst Place tel: 01892 870307 Area: Kent |
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| Visitor Information | www.penshurstplace.com | ||||||||||||
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| Penshurst Place Kent All details updated* as of: 20/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
Weekends from 1st March and daily from 21st March to 2nd Nov; 10.30am - 6pm. Last admission 5pm. |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| Adult £7, House & garden £8.50; Child (5-16) £5, House & garden £5.50; Family (2A + 2C) £20, House & garden £23; Max 2 children per adult, thereafter £2 each additional child. Parties of min 15 £7 pp. Student rates available. New family season £37.50 for gardens. House tours: Adults £8.50; Child £4.50; Garden tours: Adults £8.50; Child £5; Combined Adults £12; Child £7.50; |
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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: No On Lead only: No Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: Disabled access to gardens only. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| 100m Long Paeony Border Union Flag garden (2 acres) Individual garden rooms within the 10 acre walled Tudor garden. |
English Heritage Garden Grade: I | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| One of the oldest gardens in private ownership, it remains much as it was when constructed by Sir Henry Sidney in the Elizabethan era. Central to his ambitious project was the creation of the acclaimed Italian Garden, which involved shifting thousands of tons of earth and building an ingenious system of walls and terraces. After this era of activity and abundance, there followed a period of neglect when lack of funds meant the garden slipped into decline. On inheriting the house in 1851, the 2nd Lord De L'Isle and Dudley set about restoring the formality of his ancestor's garden. He planted a mile of yew hedge, dividing the garden and orchards into a series of small self-contained garden rooms, each with its own style and character. A further period of decay during the Second World War paved the way for the 1st Viscount De L'Isle, VC, KG, to revive and develop the garden rooms further, using some of the leading British designers of the time. Today, the 11-acre formal walled gardens offer an abundance of variety in form, foliage and bloom throughout the year. From spring flowering bulbs, through fragrant summer roses and exuberant herbaceous borders, to mellow orchard fruits. The garden culminates in a vivid blaze of autumnal colour before the winter starkness reveals its original shape and structure. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| There has been a garden at Penshurst since the 14th century - earliest records show 1346. The gardens were laid out in Tudor times and have remained remarkably true to this design. More recently, borders by Lanning Roper and John Codrington have been created. A garden for the blind has been taken from that shown at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1994. | |||||||||||||
| Nearby Kent Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Hotel Du Vin, Royal Tunbridge Wells Danehurst House, Royal Tunbridge Wells |
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| Inns & Pubs: Leicester Arms, Penshurst |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Sevenoaks Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells |
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