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Knightshayes Court |
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Knightshayes Court tel: 01884-254665 Area: Devon |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk | ||||||||||||
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| Knightshayes Court Devon All details updated* as of: 08/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
16 Feb - 24 Feb 08, 11 - 4, 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: October |
To
see: Autumn colours |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| £7.09, child £3.54, family £17.72, family (1 adult) £10.63. Groups £6.60, child £3.30. Park & garden only: £5.63, child £2.81. Groups £5.20, child £2.60 | |||||||||||||
| Onsite Facilities | |||||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes 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: Dogs in woodland walks on lead only. Guide dogs in stables. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Victorian country house with richly decorated interiors and garden with outstanding plant collection; Designed by the eccentric William Burges; Splendid Romantic and Gothic-style interiors; Celebrated gardens with lily pools, floral borders, amusing topiary and walled kitchen garden; Rare shrubs and specimen trees give vivid autumn colours; Play the pianos; Newly restored and fully productive walled kitchen garden | English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Edward Kemp |
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| This garden has been described as embodying 'all that is best in modern gardening' which includes formal gardens, summer flowering borders, drifts of spring bulbs, topiary, and a "garden in the wood" bursting with rare trees and shrubs underplanted with woodland bulbs and herbaceous plants. The gardens nearest the house are the formal areas: terraces, a paved garden, and amusing topiary cut in the yew hedge and the pool garden, with its round pond overlooked by a Victorian sculpture of a bather and a Weeping Silver Pear Tree. Knightshayes' most famous planting is the "garden in the wood". Camellia and azalea are underplanted with geranium, hellebore, trillium and pulmonaria. Magical glades display tree magnolia and rhododendron and an arboretum of ornamental trees such as clethra, aralia and acer. The walled kitchen garden (near the stables) is currenty being restored as an exemplar of modern organic gardening practice. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| Originally designed by the celebrated landscaper Edward Kemp in the 1870s, the garden owes much to Sir John and Lady Heathcoat-Amory, who gave Knightshayes to the National Trust in 1972. The house was designed by William Burges and built between 1869 and 1874. | |||||||||||||
| Nearby Devon Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Lower Collipriest Farm, Tiverton |
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| Inns & Pubs: hartnoll hotel, bolham |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Tiverton Grand Western Canal Museum Bickleigh Mill |
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