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Renishaw Hall Gardens
Renishaw
Sheffield

S21 3WB

tel: 01246 432310
fax: 01246 430 760

Area: Derbyshire
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Renishaw Hall Gardens -- Derbyshire
Visitor Information www.renishaw-hall.co.uk -- email: enquiries {at} renishaw-hall.co.uk

Renishaw Hall Gardens
Derbyshire
All details updated* as of: 10/02/2011
Text-Only version here

Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

1st Apr - 30th Sept. Wed - Sun and Bank Holiday Mondays; 10.30am - 4.30pm. Last admission 4pm

Parties / Coaches: Yes
Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Hall tours for groups can be arranged at 11am or 2.30pm or on Thursday evening - Public Hall tours on Friday at 12.30 and 2.30pm. Advance booking recommended.
View this house at StatelyHomes.com

National Garden Scheme days: Yes
13 April and 7 September
Best Times of Year to Visit:
April
May
June
July and August
To see:
Camellias, daffodils
Bluebells, rhododendrons
Roses
Herbaceous and mixed borders
 Admission Prices
Gardens, Museums & Galleries. A£6; Concessions £5; Children £3, Family tickets from £15, Under 5 free, Parking £1 per car
Guided Tour of Gardens often led by David Kesteven - Head Gardener. All tours £6 plus admission, Specialist garden tour programme on some Thursdays with the Head Gardener.
 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: Yes
On Lead only: Yes
Special Events: Yes
Other Facilities:
 Garden Features
Gardens, museum, art galleries and parkland.
Very extensive calendar of events including Fanfare for Spring in Feb, Easter for families, Bluebell Fortnight, Music in the Garden, theatre, Plant and food fairs, Classic Cars and many others right through the season. Please see their website for details.
New for 2011- Hortus Sitwellianus: The making of the gardens of Renishaw. A new and very special exhibition on the development of the garden through the centuries.
The Children's Fairytale Garden with statues, storytelling corners, maze and living willow tunnel.
Ancient and modern statues.
English Heritage Garden Grade: II*
National Collection: Yuccas
 Description of Garden
Designer: Sir George Sitwell
Renishaw, halfway between Sheffield and Chesterfield, is an oasis of beauty and the arts in an area otherwise dominated by industry and mining.

The gardens at Renishaw Hall are among the most important Italianate gardens in the country. The principles of Italian gardening include garden rooms, views and the sight and sound of still and moving water.
The eight acres of garden are divided into 12 smaller rooms by yew hedges, each with its own character. There are three rose gardens containing many historic varieties underplanted with clematis, peonies, lilies and geraniums and interplanted with unusual flowering shrubs.

More than 1,000 roses flower in the summer, scenting the air and blooming beside the many classical Italian statues - this has led some to call this the most romantic garden in England.
Deep lush herbaceous borders with carefully-chosen colour themes flank the middle lawn which leads on to the White Garden and the Ballroom Garden where the flowers are blue, yellow and white and Anthony Noel has added focus and drama to the planting. There is also a secret garden with a pocket handkerchief tree and an Indian bean tree.

The visitor must also see Bottom Terrace which is a sheltered south facing border some 200m long, in a perfect position to grow some rare and tender shrubs and flowers in almost jungle-like profusion. This is in complete contrast to the fishpond garden, opposite where the geometric design of water, yew, and grass is unrelieved by any flower planting.

To either side of the formal gardens are walks in a more natural landscape. Lady Ida's Walk takes in fantastic yew trees and offers long views across the beautiful Derbyshire countryside. On the other side of the garden there is a woodland walk that leads to Renishaw's three lakes, two contemporary with the garden (c1890), and the other dug out in the winter of 2000. There are ponds in the formal gardens, the central one reflecting its tall spray of water, and flanked by classical statues gazing out over the view.
 History of Garden
The formal garden was laid out in 1895 by Sir George Sitwell (1860 - 1943) in the classical Italianate style. In 1909 he published 'On the Making of Gardens', which attacks Augustan formalism in garden design and the romantic landscape. It has been described as 'an argument for imaginative thought in garden planning'. He was ambitious in the changes he made, and planned to make, around the estate. His eldest son Osbert looked on his energetic activities with something of a jaundiced eye: 'He abolished small hills, created lakes and particularly liked to alter the levels at which full grown trees were standing. Two old yew trees in front of the dining-room window at Renishaw, were regularly heightened and lowered; a process which I believe could have been shown to chart, like a thermometer, the temperature of his mood'.
 Nearby Derbyshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities
Hotels & Accommodation:
Sitwell Arms - Renishaw
Restaurants:
Inns & Pubs:
Mossbrook - Eckington
Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
Renishaw / Eckington 2 miles
Chesterfield 6 miles (trains to London in less than two hours)
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