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Crossing House Garden

Crossing House Garden
78 Meldreth Road
Shepreth
Royston
SG8 6PS

tel: 01763 261071
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Area: Cambridgeshire
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Crossing House Garden
Cambridgeshire
All details updated* as of: 22/04/2007

Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids

Opening Days and Hours

All Year; Every day; Dawn to Dusk

Parties / Coaches: Yes
No Coaches
Car travelling parties welcome

Groups / Coaches need Appointment: No

House Open for Viewing: No

View this house at StatelyHomes.com

National Garden Scheme days: No

Best Times of Year to Visit:
May - October.

To see:

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.

Garden Features

English Heritage Garden Grade:

National Collection:

Description of Garden

Designer:

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.

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

Hotels & Accommodation:

Restaurants:

Inns & Pubs:
The Plough, Shepreth
The Chequers, Fowlmere

Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
Cambridge 9 Miles
(Botanic Gardens)

- Cambridgeshire

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*Information Updates
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The garden information above was last updated on 22/04/2007

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