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Buscot Park tel: 01367 240786 Area: Oxford |
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| Visitor Information | www.buscotpark.com -- email: estbuscot {at} aol.com |
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Buscot Park |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||
1st Apr - 30th September; Wednesday - Friday and BH Mons & Good Fri. + second and fourth weekends and 25th Apr, 2nd and 30th May and 29th Aug. |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes by booking with the Estate Office |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Groups must book in writing or by fax or e-mail. Disabled visitors should book powered mobility vehicle in advance. |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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Best
Times of Year to Visit: Apr, May & June |
To
see: Spring bulbs, Judas & Wisteria arch Old roses, Four Seasons Walled garden and Swinging garden. |
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| Admission Prices | ||||||
| Adults £8, Grounds only £5; Child £4, Grounds only £2.50. NT members free. | ||||||
| Onsite Facilities | ||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: No |
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| Other
Facilities: Picnics only in picnic area adjacent to car park. No disabled access to house. Mobility vehicles available by prior booking. Partial access for the disabled. Plants and kitchen garden produce for sale occasionally. Buscot Park Theatre, seating 62 people. |
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| Garden Features | ||||||
| English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | ||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Harold Peto (Water Garden) |
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| The deliberate surprise of the sudden view of the narrow vista, cut through the dense woods leading down to the lake, which terminates with the temple on its other side, never fails to entrance the visitor. It features canals, rills, still pools and cascades and walk encourages one to cross the water via a charming bridge; statues and herms provide interest along the way. In a separate area, walled gardens with fruit still growing on the walls, but now mainly devoted to flowers, are designed round a formal plan and feature a Judas tree tunnel. There is also a secret 'swinging' garden and imaginative avenue walks. | ||||||
| History of Garden | ||||||
| Edward Loveden Townsend, the first owner of the house, was probably responsible for the two lakes and dense belts of trees, as well as the walled kitchen gardens. Harold Peto was commissioned by Alexander Henderson, later Lord Faringdon, in 1904 to create an Italianate garden to connect his neo-Classical house to the 20 acre lake lying below it. The second Lord Faringdon cut more avenues in the trees in the form of a patte d'oie, or goose foot. Peter Coats created the Parent's Walk in 1986. There is a new water feature above the west side of the Four Seasons Walled Garden called the Faux Fall. This was designed by David Harber in 2007. It consists of a series of five highly polished steel vertical panels in graduated form and height over which water is pumped and which when viewed from across the opposite descending stairway to the walled garden appears like a cascade. | ||||||
| Nearby Oxford Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | ||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Buscot Manor, Faringdon Cambrai Lodge, Lechlade The White Horse, Woolstone, Faringdon Lamb at Buckland Trout at Tadpole Bridge, North of Buckland |
Restaurants: The Swan, Southrop |
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| Inns & Pubs: The Radnor Arms, Coleshill The Bell, Langford The Plough, Kelmscott |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Buscot Village and Weir, Kelmscott Manor, Lechlade, Filkins Woollen Mill, Inglesham Church, Great Coxwell Tithe Barn |
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