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Tylney Hall Hotel |
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Tylney Hall Hotel tel: 01256-764881 Area: Hampshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.tylneyhall.com | ||||||||||||
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| Tylney Hall Hotel Hampshire All details updated* as of: 18/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
18th May, 1st June and 6th July; 10am - 4pm. |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: No |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: No |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes 18th May, 1st June, 6th July. |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| Adults £3 (for NGS); Children free. | |||||||||||||
| Onsite Facilities | |||||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: No |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: Guide dogs only. Limited facilities for disabled. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Water gardens, Boathouse Lake, Orchards, Rose garden, Vista, Italian gardens, Dutch garden and Kitchen garden. | English Heritage Garden Grade: | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Seldon Wornum |
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| These historic gardens, influenced by Gertrude Jekyll, now surround a luxury hotel but can be visited on Garden Open Days. Visitors can then wander in the Italian Garden, which has been carefully restored after a tennis court was built over it! The original design by Seldon Wornum can now be seen. The garden also affords views of the lake and its boathouse bridge. Visitors may be drawn from here to the Rose Gardens and Azalea Garden in which orchids bloom in June. The view across the lawns from here is framed by Giant Redwoods and takes in a Victorian teahouse and the house. Closer to the hotel, are the Dutch Gardens, which, sadly, are missing much of their original statuary. Greenhouses designed by Weir Schultz and kitchen gardens as well as a productive orchard, can also be visited. The Water Gardens might well, however, prove the highlight of a visit, boasting cascades, a woodland glade in which bamboos and rhododendrons thrive, and a lower lake. The Schultz Arch offers views of much of these. |
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| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| Whilst there is some debate, it is recorded that a mansion house has existed on this site since 1561, although it is known that the first Tylney Hall was built about 1700. That building was demolished by William Pole-Long-Wellesley, later the 5th Earl of Mornington who had inherited it, either for the price of the materials, or in order to sell the timber on the estate. A possible explanation is that by the terms of the Trust, timber could not be felled within sight of the house, so he pulled it down. Timber, particularly in Hampshire, relatively close to the naval Dockyards at Portsmouth, was then at a premium. The Hall as it now stands was built at the end of the 19th century under the supervision of Sir Lionel Phillips. It has served in a variety of roles since, including a Hospital and an ASC base for mules in the First World War and in the Second World War, the headquarters of Clan Line Steamers Ltd., the then famous steamship company owned by Lord Rotherwick, who had bought the Hall in 1919. It became a school in 1948, until it closed in 1984. It then re-opened as a hotel, after extensive re-furbishment, the following year. It is now one of a string of luxury hotels owned by Elite Hotels. |
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| Nearby Hampshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: In hotel |
Restaurants: Oak Room Restaurant in Hotel |
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| Inns & Pubs: Chequers Inn, Well Sun, Bentworth |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Rotherwick Odiham has antique shops and canal. |
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