            | |||||||||||||
Chirk Castle |
|||||||||||||
|
Chirk Castle tel: 01691-777701 Area: Wales |
 |
||||||||||||
| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk | ||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
| Chirk Castle Wales All details updated* as of: 11/02/2008 |
 |
||||||||||||
| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
Garden: 2 Feb - 10 Feb 08, 10-6, Sat & Sun |
|||||||||||||
| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
||||||||||||
House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
||||||||||||
| Best
Times of Year to Visit: April - June July - Oct Feb |
To
see: Rhododendrons, magnolias, azaleas and daffodils Roses, herbaceous plants, rock garden Snowdrops - Special opening, phone for information. |
||||||||||||
| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| £8, child £4, family £20. Groups £7.80, child £3.90. Garden only: £5.58, child £2.79, family £13.95. Groups £5.20, child £2.60 |
|||||||||||||
| Onsite Facilities | |||||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: Yes Special Events: Yes |
||||||||||
| Other
Facilities: Dogs on lead and only in car park, picnics also only in car park. New Woodland Walk for less able visitors and the visually impaired, which links to full woodland walk. |
|||||||||||||
| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Magnificent medieval fortress of the Welsh Marches; The last Edward I Welsh castle still lived in today; 700 years of history on one site; Award-winning gardens with thatched 'Hawk House', shrub garden, lime tree avenue and yew topiary; Circular woodland walk through the medieval hunting park; Stunning location with views over nine counties | English Heritage Garden Grade: | ||||||||||||
| National Collection: | |||||||||||||
| Description of Garden | Designer:
|
||||||||||||
| The views from this site compensate for its exposed nature, though belts of massive oaks provide enough protection to prevent you from being swept off your feet on windy Welsh days. The amazing topiary also provides protection for the beautifully planted borders and shrubberies with masses of roses sheltering in a sunken garden. Other trees such as a weeping Silver Lime with its delicious scent, purple-leaved beech, larch and cedar augment the lawns. There is a well planted rock bank, a thatched Hawk House, a legacy of the de Waldens', a shrub garden and banks of rhododendrons and azaleas amongst the magnolias, handkerchief tree, dogwoods and pieris. | |||||||||||||
| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| Chirk Castle was built in 1310 as one of a string of defensive fortresses against the defeated Welsh. It is on a natural strongpoint with the river below on two sides and a view across up to 14 neighbouring counties. It has long been converted to a comfortable home lived in by the Myddleton family since 1595. William Emes landscaped the park in 1764 and built a pavilion on the Terrace from which to take in the panoramic views. The immense castellated and coned yews on the lawns, which take two gardeners two and a half months to prune, were planted in the late 19th century. Norah Lindsay, the famous garden designer, suggested to Lord & Lady Howard de Walden, who leased the castle from 1911-1946, that they be let to grow to their present size. | |||||||||||||
| Nearby Wales Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Hand Hotel, Chirk village Lord Morton, Gledrid |
Restaurants: |
||||||||||||
| Inns & Pubs: Bull Inn, Shocklach, E. of Wrexham Poachers Pocket, Gledrid Bridge Inn, Chirk |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Llangollen Llanrheardre Waterfall Aqueduct & viaduct in Chirk village Froncysyllte Aqueduct Glyn Valley |
||||||||||||
  - Wales |
|||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
*Information
Updates
Garden guide and review © Gardens-Guide.com and Armchair Travel Co Ltd Armchair
Travel Co Ltd also operates these Click HERE for more details
0248x_Spring.jpg - Chirk Castle (Wales)
|
|||||||||||||