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Crossing House Garden tel: 01763 261071 Area: Cambridgeshire |
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Crossing House Garden |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||
All Year; Every day; Dawn to Dusk. |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes No Coaches Car travelling parties welcome. |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: No |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: May - October. |
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| Admission Prices | |||
| Free/Charity Box. | |||
| Onsite Facilities | |||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: No Lunches: No |
Teas:
No Light Refreshment: No Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: Yes On Lead only: Yes Special Events: No |
| Other
Facilities: Parking on grass verge. For Disabled most paths suitable. |
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| Garden Features | |||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| The garden is just over 1/4 acre lying beside the Kings Cross - Cambridge railway line, and features a very wide range of plants - rare and old favourites crammed into box edged beds. There are various ponds full of water plants and wild life. There is an Alpine house - mostly Auriculas and Lewisias - which are at their best in April. Two heated greenhouses feature mainly orchids and tender bulbs. The garden soil is alkaline but there is a large acid bed, housing many winter-flowering camellia sasanqua, and also rhododendrons. Five seats are scattered round the garden, making it suitable for people not able to walk far at a time. The six raised beds are full of alpines. A cider mill in front of the garden is filled with water in the summer and pots of plants in winter. |
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| History of Garden | |||
| This is a Level-Crossing house, built around 1850 as a bungalow, with the upper storey added about 1900. The owners have been there since 1959 and were able to buy the property when the crossing was made automatic. | |||
| Nearby Cambridgeshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||
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| Inns & Pubs: The Plough, Shepreth The Chequers, Fowlmere |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Cambridge 9 Miles (Botanic Gardens) |
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