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Knebworth House tel: 01438 812661 Area: Hertfordshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.knebworthhouse.com -- email: info {at} knebworthhouse.com |
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Knebworth House |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||
Weekends & Bank Holidays only: 20th - 28 Mar, 24th Apr - 23rd May, 12-27th June, 4 - 26th Sept: 11am - 5pm. |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes by appointment all year round. |
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 £8, House admission £2.50 extra; Child & Over 60s £8, House admission £2 extra; Family day ticket £28 ex. House, £37 incl. House; Season £38. | |||||||||||
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| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: No |
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: Hertfordshire Garden Show 1-3 May SALVO Fair 26-27 June - Architectural salvage, garden antiques and reclaimed building materials. Zimscult Exhibition 3-25 July - the gardens will be the backdrop for an exhibition of Zimbabwean stone sculpture. James and the Giant Peach 19 August - picnic style garden theatrical event Meet the Gardener walks will take place, at no additional charge, every Wednesday, at 2pm in July. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||
| Knebworth House has been the Lytton family home for more than 500 years. The house and gardens are set in 250 acres of parkland with herds of Red and Sika deer. The gardens feature the Lutyens - designed pollarded Lime Avenues and Brick garden, the Gertrude Jekyll Herb Garden, now in its centenary year, the Rose Garden, the Golden Garden, the Victorian Maze reinstated in 1995, the Pets' Cemetery and the Wilderness Walks. | English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | ||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| The formal gardens and 'wilderness' area cover approx 25 acres. The various areas of the garden include the Sunken Lawn. Sir Edwin Lutyens designed the present layout in 1910. A mixture of modern bush roses and older shrub roses, combined with herbaceous borders and 2 lily ponds, provide the centrepiece for the Rose Garden. The Maze, reinstated in 1995, using box and yew was created on the site of the Victorian Maze. There are two ponds, one ornamental, one more wild. Restoration of the Horace Garden started in 1999, and in this area is an evergreen oak, given by Queen Victoria to her godson, Victor, 2nd Earl of Lytton, on his coming of age. The Wilderness, dating from Victorian times, is a 7 acre area of fine ornamented trees, include Californian redwoods, the tallest cut - leafed silver birch in the UK, and a 'snowdrop tree'. In spring it is a carpet of Daffodils. It also contains 72 life-size dinosaurs. In the Jekyll Herb Garden, The 'Quincunx' pattern and planting was first designed by Gertrude Jekyll in 1907 but was not laid out until 1982. The ornamental vegetable and culinary herb garden in the Walled Garden, was designed in 1999 and laid out in 2000. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||
| The structure and layout of the present garden, is mainly Edwardian - designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens between 1908 - 1911, but this overlays an earlier elaborate Victorian design by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, laid out from 1846 onwards. The earliest records of a garden at Knebworth date back to 1700s. Since the 1980's a programme of restoration and development has been under way, funded by the Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust. This led to the restoration of many of the more important historic elements of the garden and new contemporary features and plantings. Each generation of the family has added something new to the garden and the present owners are carrying on that tradition. | |||||||||||
| Nearby Hertfordshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Novotel, Stevenage Knebworth Park |
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| Inns & Pubs: Lytton Arms Public House, Park Lane, Old Knebworth Brocket Arms, Ayot St. Lawrence |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Knebworth village Stevenage town |
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