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Mapperton

Mapperton
Beaminster


DT8 3NR

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Area: Dorset
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Mapperton -- Dorset
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Mapperton
Dorset
All details updated* as of: 19/02/2008
Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

1st March - 31st October; Daily except Sats; 11am - 5pm

Parties / Coaches: Yes
Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes
Group Tours available.

House Open for Viewing: Yes
23rd June - 1st Aug; Weekdays and Bank Holiday Mons. 26th May & 25th Aug.
2pm - 4.30pm, last admissions 4pm

National Garden Scheme days: No
Best Times of Year to Visit:
To see:
 Admission Prices
Adult Garden £4.50, House £4; Child (Under 18) Garden £2, House £2; Under 5s Free.
House & Garden combined: £8pp for groups of 20+
Groups of 20+ £4pp
Accompanied garden tours £2pp extra
 Onsite Facilities
Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Light Refreshment: Yes
Picnics: No
Dogs Allowed: No
On Lead only: No
Special Events: Yes
Other Facilities:
Lavatories - Wheelchair disabled access. Wheelchairs have partial access to garden. Licensed cafe open daily 1230pm - 5.30pm for lunches & teas.
 Garden Features
English Heritage Garden Grade: II*
National Collection:
 Description of Garden
Designer: Mrs Labouchere
Mapperton's terraced valley gardens surround a honey-coloured Jacobean manor house, stable blocks, dovecote and church. On upper levels a walled croquet lawn; then down to the Orangery and Italianate formal garden with fountains, topiary, grottoes, ponds and borders. Below a 17th century summer house with fishponds and topiary, leads to the lower garden with an arboretum of mature specimen shrubs, rare trees and a spring garden. Magnificent walks and views, colour in the autumn, bulbs in the spring.
 History of Garden
Mapperton is one of the oldest Dorset manors and dates back to Saxon times. At the time of the Domesday Book it belonged to William de Moion, Sheriff of Somerset, and earned him an income of 70 shillings a year. After him the manor passed by descent to four families - Bretts, Morgans, Brodrepps and Comptons - until it was sold in 1919 to Mrs Labouchere, who built the formal garden in her husband's memory. After her death in 1955, Mapperton was bought by Victor Montagu, then MP for South Dorset, whose family has had ties with Dorset for over 200 years. When he died in 1995, it passed to his son and is now the family house of the Earl and Countess of Sandwich.

The Tudor house was built by Robert Morgan, but was restyled in the 1660s by Richard Brodrepp who also added the stable blocks and pigeoncote. It was a later Richard Brodrepp, a county magistrate, who gave the north wing a classical front, added balustrades and put in a Georgian staircase hall.
 Nearby Dorset Hotels, Facilities & Amenities
Hotels & Accommodation:
The Bridge House Hotel, Beaminster
Watermeadow House, Hooke, Beaminster
Restaurants:
Ann Day Gallery, Beaminster
The Bridge House Hotel, Beaminster
Inns & Pubs:
Pickwicks Inn, Beaminster
Cotley Inn, Wambrook
Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
Beaminster
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