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Plas Newydd

Plas Newydd
Llanfairpwll
Anglesey
Gwynedd
LL61 6DQ

tel: 01248-714795
fax: 01248-713673
01248 715272 infoline

Area: Wales
Show Map Location:
Overview Map (30 Km)
Detailed Map (1.5 Km)

Visitor Information

www.nationaltrust.org.uk

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Plas Newydd
Wales
All details updated* as of: 18/02/2008

Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids

Opening Days and Hours

1 mar - 12 Mar 08, 11-4, Sat & Sun
15 mar - 29 Oct 08, 11-5:30, Sat - Wed
Open Good Fri. Rhododendron garden open early April-early June, 11-5:30. Last admission 30mins before closing

Parties / Coaches: Yes

Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes

House Open for Viewing: Yes
1 Mar - 12 Mar 08, 12-4, Sat - Wed
15 Mar - 29 Oct 08, 12-5, Sat - Wed

National Garden Scheme days: Yes

Best Times of Year to Visit:
Spring

To see:
Rhododendrons

Admission Prices

House & Garden: £7, child £3.50, family £17.50. Groups £6. Garden only: £5, child £2.50

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: No

Other Facilities:
Adventure Play Trail. Boat trips along Menai Straits (40 mins. durationat additional cost). Dogs only allowed in picnic area and car park.
Complimentary minibus shuttle service from car park to house & garden. Picnic area
Coffee shop with second-hand bookshop.

Garden Features

Home of the Marquess of Anglesey, with spectacular views of Snowdonia; One of the UK's finest mansion house settings; The largest collection of Rex Whistler works; Military museum with relics from the battle of Waterloo; Large gardens, woodland walks and a marine walk along the Menai Straits

English Heritage Garden Grade:

National Collection:

Description of Garden

Designer: Humphry Repton

Set in a spectacular position above the Menai Straits with Robert Stephenson's railway bridge on one hand and the mountains of Snowdonia lining the southern horizon, Plas Newydd enjoys a superb scenic backdrop to the delights of the garden. It enjoys a very mild climate due to the proximity of the Gulf Stream and thus a wealth of plants and trees rarely found in the British Isles. To the west of the house in the area known as the 'West Indies', lawns are bordered and broken by azaleas, hydrangeas, magnolia and scarlet embothrium, with hoherias and eucryphias flowering just after midsummer.

A dell, created from a small quarry, holds camellias, cherries, pieris and some rare trees. There is an arboretum known as 'Australasia' which was planted in 1981 and contains fast-growing trees and shrubs from the Southern Hemisphere. Finally, after enjoying the terraces near the house which have been replanted in recent years, the visitor can, in May, explore the rhododendron wood full of wild and exotic varieties.

History of Garden

The house was built in the late 18th century to a design by James Wyatt for Henry, Earl of Uxbridge, who engaged Humphry Repton, the leading landscape designer of the period, to produce one of his famous "Red Books" containing his proposals; dated 1798-9, this survives. Lord Uxbridge's son, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, who famously commanded the cavalry at Waterloo, began an extensive programme of tree planting in the years following the great victory and this was continued by the 6th Marquess in the 1920s and '30s and by the present Marquess in the 1950s. He received lorry-loads of 'thinnings' of rhododendron species from Bodnant as a wedding present in 1948-50 from the 2nd Lord Aberconway. The National Trust has continued the programme of planting and embellishment of the garden.

Nearby Wales Hotels, Facilities & Amenities

Hotels & Accommodation:

Restaurants:

Inns & Pubs:
Ye Olde Bulls Head, Beaumaris
Ship Inn, Red Wharf Bay

Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:

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The garden information above was last updated on 18/02/2008

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