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Howick Hall tel: 01665-577285 Area: Northumberland |
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| Visitor Information | www.howickhallgardens.org.uk | |||||||||||||
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| Howick Hall Northumberland All details updated* as of: 19/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||||||||||
9th Feb - 19th Mar; Sat, Sun & Weds; 12 noon - 4pm beginning with Snowdrop Walks. |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Informal |
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House
Open for Viewing: no |
National
Garden Scheme days: |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: April - May June - Aug |
To
see: Woodland garden Front borders/terraces Bog garden. |
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| Admission Prices | ||||||||||||||
| Adult £5 Child Free; Concessions £4; Child free | ||||||||||||||
| Onsite Facilities | ||||||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: No |
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| Other
Facilities: Limited access for the disabled. Plants occasionally for sale. New Earl Grey Tea House serves lunches, teas and light refreshments. |
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| Garden Features | ||||||||||||||
| A new arboretum from wild seed collected in China, Japan, the Himalayas, North America and Europe will open in 2006. Many labelled trees and shrubs and three new woodland walks of varying lengths to be enjoyed. | English Heritage Garden Grade: II | |||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
5th Earl and Countess Grey |
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| The emphasis of the garden is pleasant informality in the style of William Robinson. Being only a mile from the sea many plants too tender for the same latitude inland flourish here as they do on the West Coast of Scotland or in the West Country in England. Eucryphia cordifolia, Drimys winteri, Embothrium coccineum, Rhododendron fragrantissimum are just some of the plants that one would not expect to see on the east coast of Northumberland. A pair of Magnolia campbelli can be magnificent in flower in early April. The herbaceous borders were planted by Lady Grey with the agapanthus on the second terrace being a special feature as they are mainly original plants bred by Lewis Palmer as the Headborne hybrids now widely marketed. There is a very pleasant Long Walk, a dene which starts at the end of the woodland garden and winds down to the sea for one and a half miles following Howick Burn. |
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| History of Garden | ||||||||||||||
| Howick was the family home of the Grey family from 1319 until the death of the 5th Earl Grey in 1963. It then passed to his eldest daughter, Lady Mary Howick, and then to his grandson, the present Lord Howick of Glendale. The 2nd Earl Grey was the Prime Minister principally responsible for the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832 which saved parliamentary democracy. He was a keen gardener and tree planter and planted many of the hardwoods, particularly the beech and elms most of which sadly have already died or are at the end of their natural lives. | ||||||||||||||
| Nearby Northumberland Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | ||||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Dunstaborough Castle Hotel, Embleton |
Restaurants: Robsons, Craster |
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| Inns & Pubs: Cottage Inn, Dunstan Burnside, Longhoughton Saddle Hotel, Alnmouth Jolly Fisherman, Craster |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Howick village Craster village Longhoughton village Boulmer village Alnwick town |
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