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Mapperton tel: 01308 862645 Area: Dorset |
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| Visitor Information | www.mapperton.com | ||||||||||||
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| Mapperton Dorset All details updated* as of: 19/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
1st March - 31st October; Daily except Sats; 11am - 5pm |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Group Tours available. |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Other
Facilities: Lavatories - Wheelchair disabled access. Wheelchairs have partial access to garden. Licensed cafe open daily 1230pm - 5.30pm for lunches & teas. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | |||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Mrs Labouchere |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| Inns & Pubs: Pickwicks Inn, Beaminster Cotley Inn, Wambrook |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Beaminster |
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