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Blaise Castle House tel: 0117-9639174 Area: Bristol |
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| Visitor Information | Email: general.museum //at// bristol.gov.uk |
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Blaise Castle House |
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NOTE for 2013: Please check with garden owners or their website to confirm current dates open |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: No |
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House
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National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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| No charge. | ||||||
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| Parking:
No Lavatories: No Disabled Access: No |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: No Lunches: No |
Teas:
No Light Refreshment: No Picnics: No |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: No |
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| Other
Facilities & Comments: Children's play area. |
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| Garden Features & Events | ||||||
| Historic landscape including spectacular scenery with Gorge and Castle Folly, carriage drive, timber lodge and thatched dairy. Blaise Castle House Museum (Museum of Social History), open Easter - October. Stratford Mill. |
English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | |||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Sir Humphry Repton |
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| A spectacular drive up to the house through the gorge passes a Robber's Cave and the Lover's Leap. Wonderful views abound. The house is set in 400 acres of historic landscaped country park, once the home of the Harford family. Close to the house are the orangery and an ornamental dairy, both designed by Nash, as was Blaise Hamlet. | ||||||
| History of Garden | ||||||
| Human occupation of the site goes back to 3,000 B.C. during the Iron Age (c.650 BC - c.AD 43) there was a hill fort on Castle Hill. The estate was bought by Thomas Farr in 1762, but passed to Scandrett Harford in 1789 who had the house designed by William Paly. | ||||||
| Nearby Bristol Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | ||||||
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| Hotels
& Accommodation: Penylan, Caldicot, Monmouth |
Restaurants: Harveys Restaurant, Bristol Howard Restaurant, Bristol Glass Boat Restaurant, Bristol |
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| Inns & Pubs: Bowl Inn, Almondsbury Anchor Inn, Oldbury-on-Severn |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Bristol SS Great Britain |
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