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Nymans tel: 01444 405250 Area: West Sussex |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk | ||||||||||||
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| Nymans West Sussex All details updated* as of: 19/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
2 Feb - 16 Mar 08, 10-4, Wed - Sun |
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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: Spring and summer |
To
see: Borders and Rose garden |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| £7.20, child £3.60, family £18. Groups £6.80, child £3.40. Winter: £3.60, child £1.80, family £9. Groups £3.40, child £1.70 | |||||||||||||
| 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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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| One of the great 20th century gardens with an important collection of rare plants, set around a romantic house and ruins in a beautiful wooded estate. | English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| Nymans is very much a family garden with inviting views across the South Downs and wild meadows contrasting with intimate courtyards. The main views from the garden can be found stretching out from the pinetum and towering Lime Avenue and look out over the 600 acre estate of Nymans Woods. A more sheltered garden walk is provided by the elegant Laurel Walk which leads past the entrance to the original house, now sadly standing only as a romantic ruin after a devastating fire in 1947. The Rose and Heather Gardens and Pergola are all striking features of the skilful and dramatic planting of the garden team at Nymans. The jostling colours and fragrance of the summer borders lead the garden through the spring into summer and the incredible display continues through autumn with the remarkable range of coloured foliage in the trees. Part of the old house which was saved after the 1947 fire is open to the public and gives an insight into the lives of the Messel family, who crafted the garden for over half a century. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| The framework of the garden was set out by Ludwig Messel in 1890 when the estate was first built upon and the first house constructed. It was developed by Leonard and Maud Messel who introduced rare magnolias and exotic plants over the years until the garden passed to the National Trust in 1953. | |||||||||||||
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| Inns & Pubs: Several family pubs, Handcross Black Horse, Nuthurst |
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