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Biddulph Grange Garden |
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Biddulph Grange Garden tel: 01782-517999 Area: Staffordshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk | |||||||||||||
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| Biddulph Grange Garden Staffordshire All details updated* as of: 19/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||||||||||
1 Mar - 9 Mar 08, 11-4, Sat & 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: No |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: |
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| Admission Prices | ||||||||||||||
| 1 Mar-2 Nov: £5.80, child £2.90, family £13.50. Groups £5. 8 Nov-21 Dec: £2.15, child £1.10, family £5.05. Joint ticket with Little Moreton Hall, 1 Mar-2 Nov £10.20, child £5.10, family £25 Winter: Adult £2.30: Child £1.09: Family (two adults and three children) £5.50 Joint ticket available with Little Moreton Hall |
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| 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: No |
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| Other
Facilities: Guide and Hearing dogs only. Limited access for the disabled, there are many steps throughout the Garden, unsuitable for people with mobility problems. Picnicking in the carpark area only. |
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| Garden Features | ||||||||||||||
| A rare and exciting survival of a high Victorian garden; Tunnels and pathways lead the visitor on a miniature tour of the world; Rare and exotic planting and architecture: from an Egyptian court, to elegant Italian terraces; Unique Chinese garden, including a temple, enclosed within its own Great Wall of China; Victorian eccentricities: an upside-down tree and strange stone sculpture. | English Heritage Garden Grade: I | |||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
James Bateman, Maria Bateman |
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| In a relatively unpromising industrialised landscape, with few notable gardens in the vicinity, uninitiated visitors might expect some worthy Victorian planting, some terraces and a rockery perhaps. They could not be more wrong. This fifteen acre garden has everything, and in extraordinary measure, and must be visited to be properly appreciated. Where else would you find an Egyptian tomb, a Scottish glen, a Chinese water-garden with a design based on the familiar willow pattern porcelain and complete with pagoda, an imitation Great Wall, a Stumpery, a half-timbered Cheshire cottage leading into a Pyramid, an avenue of wellingtonias, a gilded water buffalo under a canopy and an enormous stone frog? Just one or two of these would make any garden worth visiting but Biddulph Grange has them all, cleverly linked by subterranean pathways, stepping stones across water and narrow paths around rock faces and with each hidden from the other so that the experience of walking round the garden is a series of sudden, delightful surprises. This is one of the most important and influential gardens of the 19th century, but its unsurpassed originality and beauty still capture the imagination. | ||||||||||||||
| History of Garden | ||||||||||||||
| The estate was bought by James Bateman's grandfather for coal mining, but when James and his wife, Maria, moved here in 1840 they recognised the potential of the place to create a spectacular garden around the Italianate mansion they had created from the original vicarage. They were assisted by their friend, the marine artist, Edward Cooke who designed many of the architectural features and rockwork. The Batemans drew heavily on the results of the early plant-hunting expeditions to the Himalayas by Joseph Hooker in 1849-51 and Robert Fortune's expeditions to China and Japan in the 1840s and 1850s, as well as acquiring Wellingtonias from Veitch in 1853. Robert Heath acquired the property from the Batemans in 1871 and continued the programme of planting, especially oaks, yews and hollies. The National Trust took over the garden in 1988 and, after launching an appeal, began the huge task of re-construction, which has been triumphantly successful. | ||||||||||||||
| Nearby Staffordshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | ||||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Lion & Swan, Congleton Bulls Head, Congleton |
Restaurants: |
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| Inns & Pubs: White Lion, Barthomley, nr.J16 of M6 Jervis Arms, Onecote Black Lion Inn, Butterton Ship Inn, Wincle |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Peak District National Park |
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