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Hestercombe Gardens tel: 01823-413923 Area: Somerset |
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| Visitor Information | www.hestercombegardens.com | ||||||||||||
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| Hestercombe Gardens Somerset All details updated* as of: 18/01/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
All year; 10am - 6pm, or dusk if earlier, (Last admission 5pm). Closed Christmas Day |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes Minimum of 20. |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: May May - Oct Autumn |
To
see: Foxgloves and bluebells Formal gardens Native trees in autumn colour. |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| Adult £6.95 (incl. 2 children); Additional Child £2.50; Over 60s £6.40; Groups £4.70 pp. | |||||||||||||
| 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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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Formal Edwardian garden designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll and a 40 acre Georgian landscape garden with lakes, cascade, temple & witch house. | English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll |
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| At Hestercombe you can lose yourself in 40 acres of walks, streams and temples. The formal terraces, woodlands, lakes and cascades abound with views that will take your breath away. Hestercombe is a unique combination of three period gardens. The Georgian landscape garden was created in the 1750's by Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, whose vision was complemented with the addition of a Victorian terrace and shrubbery and the stunning Edwardian gardens designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll. All once abandoned, the gardens are now being faithfully restored to their former glory. Each garden has its own quality - tranquility, wonder, inspiration - refreshing the visitor body and soul. | |||||||||||||
| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| Hestercombe was first mentioned in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 854, and from 1391 until 1872 was continuously owned by one family, the Warres. The first reference to a garden at Hestercombe is from the estate accounts of Sir Francis Warre for, ironically, pulling down a garden hedge in 1698. In 1731 John Bampfylde, MP for Exeter, who had married Sir Francis's daughter Margaret in 1718, commissioned plans for a garden from a Mr Brown of London. Coplestone Warre Bampfylde designed and laid out the Landscape garden we know today after inheriting the estate from his father in 1750. The Victorian Shrubbery and Terrace were laid out in the 1870's and the beautiful formal Edwardian garden designed by Lutyens and planted by Jekyll was completed in 1906. Restoration of the formal gardens began in 1973. Restoration of the landscape gardens began in 1995. |
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| Nearby Somerset Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Rose & Crown, Woodhill, Stoke St. Gregory Bashford's Farmhouse, West Bagborough Saltmoor House, Burrowbridge |
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| Inns & Pubs: Rose & Crown, Woodhill, Stoke St. Gregory Rose & Crown, East Lyng FitzheadInn, Fitzhead |
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