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Bicton Park Botanical Gardens tel: 01395-568465 Area: Devon |
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| Visitor Information | www.bictongardens.co.uk -- email: info {at} bictongardens.co.uk | ||||||||||
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Bicton Park Botanical Gardens |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||
All year, except Christmas Day & Boxing Day; daily; 10am - 6pm in summer & 10am - 4.30pm in winter. |
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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 | |||||||||||
| Adult £6.95; Child £5.95; Concessions £5.95; Family (2A + 2C) £19.95; Dogs £1. Child under 3 years free. Extras: Train ride £1.30; Mini-golf £0.50 Annual Prices for adults, couples, concessions, families - enquire on own website |
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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: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: A narrow-guage railway offers scenic rides and there are indoor and outdoor play areas for children. Also a large museum, restaurant, shop, garden centre and nature trail. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||
| Italian Garden, Palm House and parkland with lakes, fountains and over 1,000 trees. Newly restored 19th century hermitage. |
English Heritage Garden Grade: I | ||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Lady Louisa Rolle |
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| The magnificent 63-acre (25 ha) historic park is superbly landscaped with lakes and fountains. It also contains more than 1,000 trees including 300 species and 25 champion specimens together with many flowering plants including camellias, magnolias, rhododendrons, mimosas, a tulip tree and probably the oldest wisteria in Britain. Bicton Park is renowned for its 18th century formal Italian Garden with walled borders and formal beds and the 19th century Palm House, which ranks among the world's most elegant glass buildings. The Palm House features rare and exotic plants including orchids, cacti, begonias, pelargoniums and brilliantly coloured shrubs. There is also a Victorian fernery, old and modern roses, dwarf conifers, waterside and Mediterranean-type plants. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||
| The Italian Garden was laid out in c.1735, reputedly to a design by Andre le Notre. The Palm House, one of the oldest and most beautiful curvilinear iron glasshouses, dates from c.1825-30. It was the first of many developments inspired by Lady Louisa Rolle, who also established the arboretum, pinetum, hermitage, American garden, shell house and fernery. She also built St. Mary's Church where Queen Victoria, George VI and the late Queen Mother worshipped during visits to Bicton. | |||||||||||
| Nearby Devon Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Kings Arms, Otterton |
Restaurants: Gardeners |
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| Inns & Pubs: Kings Arms, Otterton |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: East Devon Jurassic Coast |
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