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Biddulph Grange Garden

Biddulph Grange Garden
Grange Road
Biddulph
Stoke-on-Trent

ST8 7SD

tel: 01782-517999
fax: 01782 510624

Area: Staffordshire
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Biddulph Grange Garden -- Staffordshire
Visitor Information www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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Biddulph Grange Garden
Staffordshire
All details updated* as of: 19/02/2008
Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

1 Mar - 9 Mar 08, 11-4, Sat & Sun
15 Mar - 2 Nov 08, 11-5, Wed - Sun
8 Nov - 21 Dec 08, 11-3, Sat & Sun
Open BH Mons. Closes dusk if earlier. Last admission 30mins before closing

Parties / Coaches: Yes
Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes

House Open for Viewing: Yes

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National Garden Scheme days: No
Best Times of Year to Visit:
To see:
 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
 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
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.
 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
National Collection:
 Description of Garden
Designer: James Bateman, Maria Bateman
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:
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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