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Cragside House, Garden and Estate
Rothbury
Morpeth

NE65 7PX

tel: 01669 620333
fax: 01669 620 066

Area: Northumberland
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Cragside House, Garden and Estate -- Northumberland
Visitor Information www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-cragsidehousegardenandestate -- email: cragside {at} nationaltrust.org.uk

Cragside House, Garden and Estate
Northumberland
All details updated* as of: 19/05/2010
Text-Only version here

Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

13th Mar - 31st Oct, 10:30-5, Tues - Sun
3rd Nov - 19th Dec, 11-4, Wed - Sun
Open BH Mons. On BHol weekends the property can be crowded.

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

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Tues - Sun; 13th Mar - 1st Apr, 1pm - 5pm
2nd Apr - 18th Apr, 11am - 5pm
20th Apr - 28th May, 1pm - 5pm
29th May - 6th June, 11am - 5pm
8th June - 23rd July, 1pm - 5pm
24th July - 5th Sept, 11am - 5pm
7th Sept - 22nd Oct, 1pm - 5pm
23rd Oct - 31st Oct, 11am - 5pm
Last admission 1 hour before closing
View this house at StatelyHomes.com

National Garden Scheme days: no
Best Times of Year to Visit:
June
To see:
Rhododendrons
 Admission Prices
Adult £12.60, child £6.30, family £31.50.
Gardens & estate: £8.10, child £4.10, family £19.60.
Winter (Nov/Dec): £4, child £1.80, family £9.35.
 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: Yes
Other Facilities:
Limited access for the disabled, please ring to discuss.
 Garden Features
Extraordinary Victorian house, gardens and estate - the wonder of its age; Home of Lord Armstrong - one of the North East's great Victorians; The first house in the world lit by hydroelectricity; Possibly the largest rock garden in Europe and fantastic woodland estate; One of the red squirrel's last strongholds; A tricky rhododendron maze and adventure playground.
Newly restored and reopened to visitors, the Iron Bridge offers fantastic views of the house, rock garden and Debdon Valley.
English Heritage Garden Grade: I
National Collection:
 Description of Garden
Designer:
The National Trust now owns 1,000 acres of this estate and has completed the immense task of restoring the vast rock garden installed by Lord Armstrong, exposing the enormous boulders and planting shrubs, alpine and moorland plants in the crevices. A range of rhododendrons, azaleas, berberis and rowans add variety and colour to the scene as the visitor progresses down into the Debdon Valley. In the valley is an open pinetum of huge specimen North American conifers, some of which were provided by the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, and which, in the favourable damp conditions, have attained enormous heights and girths. The Trust acquired the formal garden in 1991 and has restored the Orchard House with its extraordinary system of pots that can be rotated towards the light to provide balanced growth and ripening of fruit, as well as the Display House and Palm House, (formerly glazed) housing unusual hardy plants. But the glory of the formal gardens is the display of Victorian seasonal bedding including carpet bedding. Almost literally 'carpet' in this case as the beds often feature patterns from carpets or textiles in the house.
 History of Garden
The 1st Lord Armstrong, the famous Victorian inventor and armsmanufacturer began building this enormous house in 1863. In 1880, the house became the first in the world to be lit by hydro-electricity and also had hot and cold running water, central heating, telephones, a hydraulic passenger lift and a Turkish bath suite. He employed almost all the local population to create one of the finest Victorian landscapes to match it out of the unpromising empty moorland. He laid over 40 miles of carriage drives and footpaths, dug out four lakes and planted 7 million trees and shrubs. Armstrong also used his inventiveness and engineering skill to install hydraulic engines to pump spring water to the house and laid miles of underground pipes to transport water to supply cascades, pools and to operate machinery. Described as the 'Palace of a Modern Magician', Royalty and the aristocracy came to stay to see this wonder of the world for themselves.
 Nearby Northumberland Hotels, Facilities & Amenities
Hotels & Accommodation:
Cook and Barker Inn, Newton-on-the-Moor
Saddle Hotel, Alnmouth
Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury
Queen's Head, Rothbury
Restaurants:
Inns & Pubs:
Cook and Barker Inn, Newton-on-the-Moor
Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
Rothbury
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