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Bowood House and Gardens tel: 01249 812012 Area: Wiltshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.bowood.org -- email: c.snape {at} bowood.org |
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Bowood House and Gardens |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||
House & Gardens 31st Mar - 31st Oct; 7 Days a week; 11am - 6pm, Last admission 5pm or an hour earlier after autumn clock change. |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: No |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes 1 day for Rhododendrons only |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||
| Adult £8.60 Child £4.85 (2-4), £7 (5-15); Over 60s £7.60; Family (2A + 2C) £26.50 Group Rates: Adult £7.60; Child £3.85 (2-4), £6 (5-12); Over 60s £6.60; Rhododendrons: Adults £5.60; Over 60s £ 5.10; Child under 16 free Season tickets: Adult £39; Child (2-4) £24; Child (5-15) £32; Over 60s £34, Family Ticket £26.50 (2 adults and 2 children) £105.00 Admission charges allow entry into the House, Gardens and Adventure Playground. Disabled visitors half price. All children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. |
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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: No Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: Adventure Playground and Soft Play Palace for under 12's. New Hotel & Spa next door to the Golf Club opens in May 2009 |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||
| Bowood House and Gardens - 100 acre, 'Capability' Brown designed parkland, cascade waterfall, Lake, Pinetum, Italianate terraced garden. Rhododendron walks - 60 Acre woodland garden with extensive range of rhododendrons, azaleas and bluebells. (separate area to house and garden) Bowood Dog Show & Summer Fair - 7th June Bowood Bowl - 22nd - 30th Aug |
English Heritage Garden Grade: I | ||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
'Capability' Brown, Repton, Charles Hamilton |
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| This hundred acre garden and park surrounding the house has features designed by many of the most famous English landscape gardeners and architect/designers. For example 'Capability' Brown created the lovely lake and parkland, Humphry Repton the landscape, Charles Hamilton built the famous cascade and Robert Adam the orangery and mausoleum. Lately Mary Keen has advised on the planting of the Italianate formal gardens using box hedging and gravel to replace grass paths. The important pinetum, arboretum, Doric temple and rhododendron walks are not to be missed, though the same can hardly be said of some of the modern sculpture. The garden is particularly beautiful in spring with massed bulbs and bluebell woods. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||
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| Nearby Wiltshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: The Strand - Calne |
Restaurants: in Bowood House and gardens |
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| Inns & Pubs: The Lansdowne Arms - Derry Hill village George & Dragon, Rowde Red Lion, Laycock |
Villages / Towns
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  - Wiltshire |
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