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Painshill Park tel: 01932 868113 Area: Surrey |
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| Visitor Information | www.painshill.co.uk | ||||||||||||
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| Painshill Park Surrey All details updated* as of: 20/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
All Year round except Christmas Day; Mar - Oct; Tues - Sun & BH; 10.30am - 6pm. Last entry 4.30pm. |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: Spring All Year |
To
see: American Roots Exhibition |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| Adults £6.60, Concessions £5.80, Accompanied children (5-16) £3.85, Under 5's Free, Family (2 adults 2 children) £22 Pre-Booked Adult Groups of 10+: £5.80 Pre-Booked Guided Tours for 10+: £1.00 per head |
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| Onsite Facilities | |||||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: No Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: Yes Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: Suitable venue for weddings and corporate events with appropriate facilities. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| The Hamilton Landscapes - including the Gothic Temple, Chinese Bridge, Crystal Grotto, Turkish Tent, the newly restored Hermitage, working vineyard and giant Waterwheel feeding the 14 acre serpentine lake. In 2006 American Roots, a major horticultural exhibition, will re-open exploring the 18th century exchange of plants between Europe and America. The story of how American seeds changed European gardens forever. |
English Heritage Garden Grade: I | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Hon Charles Hamilton |
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| Contemporary with Stowe and Stourhead, Painshill is one of Europe's finest 18th Century landscape gardens. The garden, which covers 160 acres, has been descibed as landscape theatre in which the spectator moves from scene to scene. Staged around a huge serpentine lake, surprises come at every turn - a Gothic Temple, Chinese Bridge, Ruined Abbey, Grotto, a Turkish Tent, Gothic Tower and spectacular waterwheel, all disappear and reappear as the walk proceeds. The great Cedar of Lebanon is reputedly the largest in Europe. Painshill is delightful all year round, its moods changing with the seasons. Amongst the buildings, hills and towering cedars, the atmosphere is heightened by an array of authentic 18th century plantings: tiers of shrubs, colourful flowerbeds, even a working vineyard. The garden won the Europa Nostra Medal for "exemplary restoration". |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| The garden was created by the Hon Charles Hamilton, plantsman, painter and brilliantly gifted designer, between 1738 and 1773. He transformed barren heathland into ornamental pleasure grounds and parkland of dramatic beauty and contrasting scenery, dominated by a 14 acre serpentine lake fed from the river by an immense waterwheel. Take a leisurely circuit walk round Painshill and you will soon begin to appreciate what was in Charles Hamilton's mind when he designed his great ornamental landscape. He created a garden of different moods and variety to give Painshill its unique capacity to surprise and mystify visitors, leaving them spellbound. |
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| Nearby Surrey Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Hilton National Hotel, Cobham, Surrey |
Restaurants: |
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| Inns & Pubs: The Running Mare, The Tilt, Cobham The Plough, Downside The Prince of Wales, West End, Esher. |
Villages / Towns
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