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Erddig tel: 01978-355314 Area: Wales |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk | ||||||||||||
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| Erddig Wales All details updated* as of: 18/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
9 Feb - 9 mar 08, 11-4, Sat & Sun |
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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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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: Spring Summer |
To
see: Bedding plants fruit |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| House: £8.54, child £4.27, family £21.35. Groups £7.20, child £3.60. Garden & outbuildings only: £5.46, child £2.73, family £13.65. Groups £4.50, child £2.25 |
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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: Dogs on lead only and in car park and country park. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Atmospheric house and estate, vividly evoking its family and servants; A unique insight into servants' life in the 18th and 19th century; A completely furnished 18th-century large country house; One of the last surviving 18th-century gardens with a large walled garden and Victorian parterre; Extensive designed parkland and 13 miles of footpaths; Authentic demonstrations of restored historic machines; Horse-drawn carriage rides around the estate | English Heritage Garden Grade: I | ||||||||||||
| National Collection: Ivy | |||||||||||||
| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| The neat pattern of paths, lawn, pleached limes, fruit trees, yews and hollies, and lines of Portugal laurels is complemented by a wide canal lined with lilies on the east side of the hall. The fruit trees are particularly important, both for decoration and for produce, and include many old varieties corresponding to a list of Erddig's wall fruits in 1718. Bulbs, especially daffodil varieties which date from the early 20th century, are planted beneath the fruit trees and in the borders. There are some wonderful specimen trees, including a Swamp Cypress and an avenue of Wellingtonias planted in the middle of the 19th century. | |||||||||||||
| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| Owned by the Yorke family since 1718 and perhaps earlier, the garden represents one of the few relatively unaltered examples of a Dutch formal garden. A bird's eye view drawing of 1739 shows it very much as it is today, thanks to the re-construction work of the National Trust, though the Yorkes had introduced embellishments such as fountains in the parterre and a small Flower Garden in Victorian times. William Emes, who also worked at Chirk and Powis Castles nearby, modelled the landscape in the naturalistic style in the late 18th century and built the unique circular weir, known as The Cup and Saucer. The National Trust took over the property in 1973. | |||||||||||||
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| Inns & Pubs: Pant-yr-Ochain, Gresford N. of Wrexham Bull Inn, Shocklach |
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