            | ||||||||||||||
Oxburgh Hall |
||||||||||||||
|
Oxburgh Hall tel: 01366 328258 Area: Norfolk |
 |
|||||||||||||
| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk | |||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
| Oxburgh Hall Norfolk All details updated* as of: 19/02/2008 |
 |
|||||||||||||
| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||||||||||
2 Feb - 9 Mar 08, 11-4, Sat & Sun |
||||||||||||||
| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
|||||||||||||
House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes |
|||||||||||||
| Best
Times of Year to Visit: Late Jan - mid March March - May April October |
To
see: Snowdrops & aconites Daffodils & Narcissus Blossom in Orchard Autumn colour on trees - estate & woodland walks |
|||||||||||||
| Admission Prices | ||||||||||||||
| £6.40, child £3.30, family £17. Groups £6, child £3.10. Garden & estate only: £3.30, child £1.90. Garden & gatehouse (winter): £5.25, child £2.65, family £13.15. Reduced rate when arriving by cycle | ||||||||||||||
| 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 |
|||||||||||
| Other
Facilities: The restored vegetable garden supplies a proportion of the fruit and vegetables used in the tearoom. |
||||||||||||||
| Garden Features | ||||||||||||||
| 15th-century moated manor house; Secret doors and priest's hole; Mary Queen of Scots embroideries; Bedingfeld family, still in residence after 500yrs; Magnificent Tudor gatehouse; French parterre; Woodland walks and trails |
English Heritage Garden Grade: II | |||||||||||||
| National Collection: | ||||||||||||||
| Description of Garden | Designer:
|
|||||||||||||
| The pride of the garden is the extraordinary parterre which has a scrolled design and requires large quantities of bedding plants to manifest itself each year. In such a flat landscape this sets off the hall and moat to advantage and combines effectively with oaks, beeches, cedars and Wellingtonias planted near the house. On the other side of the parterre, beyond the yew hedges is a herbaceous border and beyond that the walled Kitchen Garden which is planted with plums, gages, medlars, pears and quinces. Further on a wooden drawbridge leads into My Lady's Wood where a thatched summer-house sits among the oaks, beeches and sycamore. In Spring this area is covered with snowdrops, violets and wildflowers. |
||||||||||||||
| History of Garden | ||||||||||||||
| The hall was originally built as a fortified house for Sir Edmund Bedingfeld in about 1482. The sixth baronet, Sir Henry Paston Bedingfeld, and his wife Margaret, imported a design for a parterre from Paris in 1845 and remarkably it survives almost intact to this day, although flowers have replaced the original gravel and crushed stone, such as chalk and black stone, providing the necessary colour. The large Victorian walled garden has been replaced by an orchard for practical reasons. | ||||||||||||||
| Nearby Norfolk Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | ||||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Crown Hotel |
Restaurants: |
|||||||||||||
| Inns & Pubs: Spread Eagle, Barton Brendish |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: |
|||||||||||||
  - Norfolk |
||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
*Information
Updates
Garden guide and review © Gardens-Guide.com and Armchair Travel Co Ltd Armchair
Travel Co Ltd also operates these Click HERE for more details
0279_OxburghHall.jpg - Oxburgh Hall (Norfolk)
|
||||||||||||||