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Rodmarton Manor |
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Rodmarton Manor tel: 01285 841 253 Area: Gloucestershire |
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| Visitor Information | www.rodmarton-manor.co.uk | ||||||||||||
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| Rodmarton Manor Gloucestershire All details updated* as of: 18/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
Snowdrops: 10th Feb, 14th Feb and 17th Feb; from 1.30pm. If mild weather In Jan may open earlier - check their website |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes 20 or more. |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Please specify guided tour of either house & garden, or just garden only. |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| Adult House+Garden £7, Garden only £4; Child House+Garden £3.50; Child 5-15 Garden only £1 (accompanied). Parties of over 30 people may be divided. Guided tours of garden £40 per group + individual entry fee |
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| Onsite Facilities | |||||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: No Lunches: No |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: No Picnics: No |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: No |
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| Other
Facilities: Tea and coffee and refreshments by arrangement when booking for parties of 20 or more. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Distinctive rooms formed by walls and hedges. Large herbaceous borders, sunk garden, orchard and rockery. New planting of ornamental trees. Herbaceous borders being replanted. |
English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Ernest Barnsley |
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| The garden was designed to comprise a series of outdoor rooms, or separate areas, each with its own character. There are walls and there are hedges of holly, box, beech and yew. These form the "walls" of the rooms. The original garden consisted of borders, lawns, topiary, two kitchen gardens and three tennis courts as well as the older trees that were on the site. The garden now has much more varied planting, including magnificent herbaceous borders, a troughery, rockery, roses and a collection of snowdrops. There are some fine vistas and good views. A new area of planting with ornamental trees has just been completed. | |||||||||||||
| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| Rodmarton Manor was one of the last country houses to be built in the old traditional style with everything being done by hand using local stone, local timber and local craftsmen. It was done at a time when mass factory and machine production had already become the norm. Ernest Barnsley and the Cotswold group of craftsmen, who built and furnished the house for Claud and Margaret Biddulph, beginning in 1909, were responsible for the revival of many traditional crafts in the Cotswolds which were in danger of dying out. | |||||||||||||
| Nearby Gloucestershire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Thames Head Inn, Trouble House Inn, White Horse Inn |
Restaurants: Wild Duck Inn, Ewen |
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| Inns & Pubs: Wild Duck Inn, Ewen |
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*Information
Updates
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