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Stowe Landscape Gardens 
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Stowe Landscape Gardens tel: 01280 822850 Area: Buckinghamshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk -- email: stowegarden {at} nationaltrust.org.uk |
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Stowe Landscape Gardens |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||||||
1st Feb - 1st Mar 2009, Sat & Sun, 10:30am - 4pm |
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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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| Admission Prices | ||||||||||
| £7.15 (£6.50), child £3.65 (£3.30), family £17.95 (£16.30). Groups £6.10, House and house tours: tel. Infoline for details. |
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| Onsite Facilities | ||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: Yes On Lead only: Yes Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: Self drive 2 seater powered wheelchair available (pre-book) Braille and tape guide |
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| 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 |
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| 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, though Charles Bridgeman had been responsible for the original landscape design. 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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