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Arley Hall & Gardens

Arley Hall & Gardens
Northwich


CW9 6NA

tel: 01565 777353
fax: 01565 777465

Area: Cheshire
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Arley Hall & Gardens -- Cheshire
Visitor Information www.arleyhallandgardens.com
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Arley Hall & Gardens
Cheshire
All details updated* as of: 18/01/2008
Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

31st Mar - 30th Sept & w/ends in Oct; Tues - Sun & BH Mons; 11.00am - 5.00pm

Parties / Coaches: Yes
Minimum 15 people
Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes

House Open for Viewing: Yes
1st Apr - 30th Sept Tues & Sun & BH only 12noon - 5pm. Closed 6th may, 8th July & 9th Sept. Last admission 4.30pm
View this house at StatelyHomes.com

National Garden Scheme days: No
Best Times of Year to Visit:
Spring
Summer
Autumn
To see:
Spring bulbs, Azaleas, Rhododendrons
Walled gardens, herbaceous border, roses
Exotic trees & shrubs, autumn tints.
 Admission Prices
Gardens, Chapel & Grounds: Adult £5; Child, £2; Over 60s £4.50; Family £12;
Hall: Adult £2.50; Child, £1; Over 60s £2; Family £7. admission to the Hall is only available after purchase of ticket to gardens.
Season Tickets for Hall & Gardens: Joint Adult £40; Individual Adult £25; Family £58.
Group Prices 10% discount. Tour with Head Gardener £70. Tour of Hall £35
 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
Other Facilities:
Specialist tours, garden courses, garden lectures and Christmas events.
 Garden Features
Double herbaceous border reputed to be oldest in England. Award-winning gardens created by generations of the same family. Hall re-built in Jacobean-Victorian style in 1840's is a beautiful family home, used for filming weddings and corporate events. English Heritage Garden Grade: II*
National Collection:
 Description of Garden
Designer: Egerton-Warbutons and Ashbrooks
Overlooking a beautiful park, these award-winning gardens have been lovingly created by successive generations of the same family. Features include the double herbaceous border, first laid out in 1846, the pleached lime avenue, the unique avenue of Quercus Ilex, shaped like giant cylinders, fine yew hedges and topiary.

The gardens also contain a good collection of shrub roses, rhododendrons and azaleas, walled gardens and a herb garden. The Grove is a more informal area of the garden and contains spring bulbs, a large collection of rhododendrons and azaleas and other flowering shrubs and trees.

The gardens and house have recently featured in the ITV production of "The Forsyte Saga".
 History of Garden
The earliest records of the gardens at Arley appear on a map of 1744. When Sir Peter and Lady Elizabeth Warburton lived here in 1743 they built the first walled gardens and laid out a large pleasure ground of shrubberies and walks on the east side of the house. In 1846 Rowland and Mary Egerton-Warburton created the garden which we see today. The breath-taking double herbaceous border was laid out in that year, many years before William Robinson made herbaceous borders so popular. George Elgood painted the border in 1889 and his watercolours were reproduced in Gertrude Jekyll's book "Some English Gardens", published in 1904. They also created the Rootree, an area of stumps and rocks, again popular in the Victorian period, the Furlong Walk and Tea Cottage garden (so named for the tea parties held there). It was his love of trees that encouraged him to create the Pleached Lime Avenue and other avenues on the estate.

In 1900 Antoinette Egetton -Warburton, Rowland's daughter-in-law, created the Flag Garden as an enclosed sanctum featuring roses, lavender and other fragrant plants.

In 1930 the Fish Garden with a small central pond, was created, taking the place of a former bowling green.
 Nearby Cheshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities
Hotels & Accommodation:
Hanover International, Stretton
Cottons, Knutsford
Restaurants:
Inns & Pubs:
The Thorn, Appleton
George & Dragon, Great Budworth
Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
Chester
Gt. Budworth, (old estate village).
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