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Stowe Landscape Gardens

Stowe Landscape Gardens
Buckingham

MK18 5EH

tel: 01280 822850
fax: 01280 822437

Area: Buckinghamshire
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Stowe Landscape Gardens -- Buckinghamshire

Visitor Information

www.nationaltrust.org.uk

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Stowe Landscape Gardens
Buckinghamshire
All details updated* as of: 08/02/2008

Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids

Opening Days and Hours

Sat & Sun, 5 Jan - 2 Mar 2008, 10:30am - 4pm
Wed - Sun, 5 Mar - 2 Nov 2008, 10:30am - 5:30pm
Sat & Sun, 8 Nov 2008 - 31 Jan 2009, 10:30am - 4pm
Parkland: All year, dawn - dusk, Sun - Sat
Gardens closed Sat 24 May
Open BH Mons. Last admission 1.5 hr before closing.

Parties / Coaches: Yes

Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Infoline 01280-818166. (Not NT)

National Garden Scheme days: No

Best Times of Year to Visit:

To see:

Admission Prices

£6.20, child £3.15, family £15.50. Groups £5.85, child £2.92. House and house tours: tel. Infoline for details.

Onsite Facilities

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes

Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: No
Lunches: No

Teas: Yes
Light Refreshment: Yes
Picnics: No

Dogs Allowed: Yes
On Lead only: Yes
Special Events: Yes

Other Facilities:
Self drive 2 seater powered wheelchair available (pre-book)
Braille and tape guide

Garden Features

Explore more than 40 monuments, temples and secret corners, ornamental lakes, wooded valleys and spectacular views; Miles of walks and trails through the gardens and surrounding parkland

English Heritage Garden Grade: I

National Collection:

Description of Garden

Designer: Vanburgh, Bridgeman, Kent, Capability Brown

One of the finest Georgian landscape gardens extending over 400 acres, with valleys and vistas, lakes and rivers and more than 30 temples and monuments designed by many of the leading architects of the 18th century. The newly restored 250-acre Deer Park has recently opened and restoration continues in other areas of the Park and gardens. The one and a half mile avenue leading from the Buckingham entrance to the triumphal Corinthian arch gives just a taste of the many treasures to be explored. The Trust's excellent guide will help to explain the symbolism and allegorical nature of many of the landscape's features and the monuments.

History of Garden

Originally the concept of the first owner Viscount Cobham, the gardens at Stowe were continually extended and enhanced by many famous architects and designers, not least Capability Brown, who was employed as Head Gardener there from 1741. The vast mansion has been a school since 1923 and the gardens have been in the hands of the National Trust since 1989, when a major programme of restoration and re-constitution began, with spectacular results.

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The garden information above was last updated on 08/02/2008

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