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Dunham Massey tel: 0161 9411025 Area: Cheshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk | ||||||||||||
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| Dunham Massey Cheshire All details updated* as of: 06/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
Garden: 8 mar - 2 Nov 08, 11 - 5:30, Sun - Sat |
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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 |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: May & June June & July August - October |
To
see: Bog Garden Late flowering Azaleas (Denny Platt Collection) Hydrangea Collection |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| £7.70, child £3.85, family £19.30. Groups £7.20 pp. Garden Only: £5.45, child £2.70, family £13. Reduced rate when arriving by public transport | |||||||||||||
| 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: No On Lead only: No Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: £3 parking charge, refunded when a House and garden ticket purchased. Restaurant open year round. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Elizabethan Mount, Victorian Bark House, 18th Century Orangery, Pump House and Edwardian Parterre. Green Silk Room restored. 17th century State Bed restored. |
English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| Surrounding the 18th-century house, the garden at Dunham Massey is a great plantsman's garden with interesting historic features of note including an Orangery, Pump House, Victorian Bark House and the remains of an Elizabethan Mount. Acid conditions and a varied site provide for a wide range of unusual shade- and moisture-loving plants including Giant Chinese Lilies, Himalayan Blue Poppies and rare late-flowering azaleas, all set amongst manicured lawns, mixed borders and cool woodland. Well worth visiting in spring for the drifts of bluebells in the shady woods, in summer for the Edwardian parterre with its glorious formal bedding or in autumn for the spectacular border of hydrangeas containing over 60 varieties. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| The moat is first mentioned in 1411 but is probably much older and the Mount formed part of the garden created by 'Old' Sir George Booth at the start of the 17th century. The 2nd Earl of Warrington removed the walled enclosures and created an enormous park which also included terraces, parterres, and two productive gardens. The 5th Earl of Stamford was responsible for the flowing lawns and more naturalistic planting seen today. He also planted purple beech in the early 1790's, two specimens of which still survive near the Orangery. His son, Lord Grey of Groby, was an enthusiastic planter and collected many trees and plants of all kinds, as did the 7th Earl, who, after he succeeded in 1845, doubled the expenditure on the gardens. Standards began to slip by the end of the century but the 9th Earl took a keen interest in the gardens and laid out a parterre by the north front and a rose garden. After WWII the garden lost many of its features, (the workforce diminishing from 10 to 2) and it was not until the National Trust took it over with a generous bequest from the 10th and last Earl of Stamford in 1976 that restoration began, masterminded by John Sales, its Head of Gardens, and a dedicated team of five gardeners. |
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| Nearby Cheshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Quality Hotel, Langham Road, Bowden, Altrincham |
Restaurants: The Stables Restaurant, Dunham Massey |
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| Inns & Pubs: Spread Eagle Hotel, Lymm, Cheshire |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Altrincham (Metro tram to Manchester) Quarry Bank Mill Manchester United museum Tatton Park Jodrell Bank |
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