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Blickling Hall tel: 01263-738030 Area: Norfolk |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org/blickling | ||||||||||||
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| Blickling Hall Norfolk All details updated* as of: 08/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
Garden: 1 Feb - 14 Mar 08, 11-4, Thurs-Sun |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Groups must book with s.a.e. to Property Office. |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| £8.27, child £4.09,
family £21.80, family (1 adult) £13.18) Groups (12+) £7.73, child £3.82. Garden only: £5.45, child £2.72,
family £14.54, family (1 adult) £9.09. Groups (12+) £5.10, child £2.50. Free access to South Front,
shop, restaurant, plant centre, second-hand bookshop, art exhibitions. Coarse
fishing permits available at lakeside, call 01263 731 994. |
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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: Yes On Lead only: Yes Special Events: No |
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| Other
Facilities: Coarse fishing permits available at lakeside, call 01263 731 994. Dogs on lead in park only. Full events programme. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Magnificent Jacobean house with gardens and park; Famed for its long gallery, fine tapestries, paintings and rare books; A Garden for all seasons; Excellent wedding and conference venue; Reputedly home to the headless ghost of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second queen | English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| A spectacular and beautiful Jacobean house entices you to visit an equally spectacular and beautiful garden beyond. Incorporating important elements created by the leading garden designers over the past three centuries, this is a garden that includes a large and wonderfully planted parterre with a delightful colour scheme created by one of the leading lights in the garden design sphere before WWII. Fantastic topiary, including the famous grand pianos, complements this sublimely, and the dry moat contains plants seldom found in this part of the world including buddleia, auriculata, ceanothus and camellia. But this is just the hors d'oeuvre, and the main course in the form of the parkland, is arrived at after leaving the parterre when you find yourself in rolling parkland with fine stands of oak, beech and chestnut. Its main feature is the lake with huge Oriental plane trees and a venerable Turkey Oak nearby. In Spring the foot of each of these is covered in bulbs and wild flowers. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| The house was built by Sir Henry Hobart, but little remains of his early 17th century garden. His great grandson, the 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire redesigned the garden in the early 18th century and the central axis of the garden and grand vista looking up to the Doric Temple is still there. His son, the 2nd Earl, living at the height of the Landscape Movement, concentrated on creating a park with rolling pasture, the great lake and the Orangery, probably designed by Wyatt and built in 1782. It is known that Humphry Repton suggested some of these improvements and Repton's son, John, was employed after 1823, working on garden furniture and other features. In the 1860s the 8th Marquis Lothian created the present grid pattern for the formal areas of the garden employing, Markham Nesfield, the son of William Andrews Nesfield who did much work at Kew, to excavate the 2-acre parterre, although Lady Lothian dictated its interior planting. The present-day planting there was carried out by Norah Lindsay in the years between the World Wars and has been carried forward by the national Trust. She also designed the less flamboyant Secret Garden. | |||||||||||||
| Nearby Norfolk Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Shrublands Farm, Northrepps, S. of Cromer |
Restaurants: The Greens, Aylsham |
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| Inns & Pubs: Buckinghamshire Arms, Blickling Walpole Arms, Itteringham |
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