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Renishaw Hall Gardens |
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Renishaw Hall Gardens tel: 01246 432310 Area: Derbyshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.sitwell.co.uk | ||||||||||||
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| Renishaw Hall Gardens Derbyshire All details updated* as of: 19/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
20th Mar - 28th Sept. Thurs - Sun and Bank Holiday Mondays; 10.30am - 4.30pm. Last admission 4pm |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes Throughout season |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: April May June July and August |
To
see: Camellias, daffodils Bluebells, rhododendrons Roses Herbaceous and mixed borders |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| Gardens, Museums & Galleries. Adult £5; Child free; Over 60s £4.20 Guided Tour of Gardens by Head Gardener. £5.50 pp with min. of 20 persons |
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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: Yes On Lead only: Yes Special Events: Yes |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Gardens, museum, art galleries and parkland. Very extensive calendar of events including Easter Fun Day, Bluebell Fortnight, Theatre in the Garden, Music in the Garden, Walk & Dine, Tour & Dine, Food & Farming Fair, Plant Fair, 1940's re-enactment, Classic Cars and many others right through the season. Please see their website for details. New for 2008 - view the newly arranged borders inspired through collaboration with eminent garden designer Anthony Noel and Renishaw's head gardener David Kesteven. |
English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | ||||||||||||
| National Collection: Yuccas | |||||||||||||
| Description of Garden | Designer:
Sir George Sitwell |
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| 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 divided into 12 smaller gardens by Yew hedges, each garden having its own character. There are three rose gardens containing many historic varieties underplanted with clematis, paeonies, lilies and geraniums and interplanted with many unusual flowering shrubs. The garden as a whole has over 1,000 roses, which along with the classical Italian statues, have led some to call this the most romantic garden in England. Deep lush herbaceous borders with carefully chosen colour themes flank the middle lawn; this leads on to the 'White Garden' and the 'Ballroom Garden' where the flowers are blue, yellow and white. 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 border some 200m long using its south facing sheltered position to grow some rare and tender shrubs and flowers in almost jungle-like profusion. This is in complete contrast to the garden called fishpond, 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 is a short walk taking in fantastic yew trees and offering views out 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. |
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| 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 |
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| Inns & Pubs: Mossbrook - Eckington |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Renishaw / Eckington 2 miles Chesterfield 6 miles |
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