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Packwood House tel: 01564-782024 Area: Warwickshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk | ||||||||||||
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| Packwood House Warwickshire All details updated* as of: 11/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
Park: All year, 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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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| House & Garden: £6.60, child £3.30, family £16.50. Groups £5.60, Group visits outside normal hours £11.20. Garden only: £3.80, child £1.90. Joint ticket with Baddesley Clinton: £10.90, child £5.45, family £27.25. Groups £9.10. Joint ticket for gardens only: £5.70, child £2.85 | |||||||||||||
| Onsite Facilities | |||||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No |
Teas:
No Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: Yes |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Much-restored Tudor house, park and garden with notable topiary; Tudor manor house with a fascinating civil war history; Lavish interiors with renowned collections of stained glass and tapestries; Walled flower garden offers a riot of colour throughout the season; Unusual 17th-century Yew Garden, representing 'The Sermon on the Mount'; Look out for 'bee boles' in the Garden Terrace wall, which date from 1756 | English Heritage Garden Grade: I | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| The glory of this garden is its almost unbelievable topiary. The extraordinary standing 'figures' are traditionally held to represent the Sermon on the Mount, with the Master on the summit of the mound and the twelve Apostles and four Evangelists below and the assembled Multitude on the lawn. Some of the 'figures' are over 50 feet high and represent a major challenge to the topiarist, but all are different shapes and sizes and have individual character. In contrast they are surrounded by a tall contoured box hedge. Two other major features of the garden draw attention to themselves; firstly the lovely mellowed brickwork of the gazebos, walkways, walls and flights of steps echoing that of the house itself and secondly the beautifully planted Sunk Garden and herbaceous borders. On the other sides of the house are a series of courts, one known as Fountain Court, containing the oddly shaped plunge bath installed in 1680. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| The house was re-designed in the late 17th century by John Fetherston and his son who began laying out the rectangular enclosures, the raised terracing and the gazebo which was shown in a drawing of 1756. It is believed that the extraordinary topiary was begun in the mid-19th century. Graham Baron Ash, whose father, an industrialist and racehorse owner, bought Packwood for him in 1905, did much to create the South Garden, whilst restoring the gazebos. | |||||||||||||
| Nearby Warwickshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
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Restaurants: Boot, Lapworth Baddesley Clinton, National Trust |
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| Inns & Pubs: Boot, Lapworth |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Stratford-upon-Avon (12miles) Warwick Leamington Spa |
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