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Lanhydrock tel: 01208-265950 Area: Cornwall |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk | ||||||||||||
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| Lanhydrock Cornwall All details updated* as of: 08/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
All year, 10 - 6, Sun - Sat |
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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: Spring |
To
see: Rhododendrons, magnolia and camellias. |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| £9, child £4.50, family £22.50, family (1 adult) £13.50. Groups £8.40, child £4.20. Garden & grounds only: £5.10, child £2.55. Reduced rate when arriving by cycle or public transport |
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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: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: Powered self-drive buggy; Braille guides for House & Garden; small lift to 1st Floor; wheelchair route and map for garden. Dogs on lead allowed in Park and woods. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Magnificent late Victorian country house with extensive servants' quarters, gardens and wooded estate; 17th-century gatehouse and long gallery; The ultimate 19th-century 'Upstairs/Downstairs' experience; Fabulous collection of spring-flowering magnolias and bluebell woods; Adventure playground, with wobbly bridge, scramble nets and animal sculptures; Successful dormouse monitoring programme; Film location for The Three Musketeers (1993) and Twelfth Night (1996) | English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| Unusually for Cornwall, the majority of the gardens are laid out above the house, providing spectacular views of the rooftops framed by flowers from the many walks through the hillside woods. Around the house, the lawns with formal parterres planted with roses and bedding plants and about 30 huge topiary yews provide a beautiful and restful setting. At the edge of the lawns there are some fine trees, amongst them Copper beeches planted by William Gladstone and Lord Roseberry, the 19th century Prime Ministers, and an extraordinary Field Maple covered in mosses and lichens. In the Higher Garden some astonishingly large stands of rhododendrons and camellias provide huge splashes of colour in spring and early summer. These contrast with the magnolias, some of which form a tunnel of blossom and which are complemented by drifts of white Pheasant's Eye Narcissi in the Top Walk. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| The house dates from 1634, but was radically re-modelled by George Gilbert Scott in 1857 for the 1st Baron Robartes. At the same time Scott laid out the garden in a formal design with low crenellated walls dividing it into sections. The design was simplified before WWII, although the parterres remain. In 1914 Lady Clifden laid out herbaceous borders surrounded by a semi-circular yew hedge which was augmented by the National Trust in 1971 by completing the circle and planting more beds. The 7th Viscount Clifden imported more spectacular varieties of shrubs and trees after he inherited the property in 1930. | |||||||||||||
| Nearby Cornwall Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Royal Oak, Lostwithiel Lostwithiel Golf & Country Club. |
Restaurants: |
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| Inns & Pubs: Crown, Lanlivery Royal Oak, Lostwithiel |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: City of Truro (25 miles) Bodmin Moor (5 miles) Trerice (NT- near Newquay, 20 miles) |
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