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Stonor Park

Stonor Park
Henley-on-Thames


RG9 6HF

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Area: Oxford
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Stonor Park -- Oxford
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Stonor Park
Oxford
All details updated* as of: 13/03/2007
Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

2nd Apr - 24th Sept; Suns & BH Mons; 1pm - 5.30pm
Guided Tours: Suns, BH Mons & Wed in July, Aug & Sept; Weds; 2pm - 4.30pm

Parties / Coaches: Yes
by appointment
Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes
House and/or gardens available for private parties of 20+ on Tues, Wed & Thurs from 1st Apr - 30th Sept.

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Tour takes approx. 1 hour 15 mins.

National Garden Scheme days: No
Best Times of Year to Visit:
To see:
 Admission Prices
House & Garden, Adult £6; Children under 14 free
Garden only, £3.50.
Private tours Tues - Thurs, Apr - mid-Sept (min 20 pers. max 55) Adults £8; (Delicious cold meat , sald and ice cream lunch with tea/coffee @£10 extra pp. Coffee/tea only £2pp - booking essential. Afternoon tour with tea etc. £13pp)
School parties £4 (2 teachers free per 20 pupils)
 Onsite Facilities
Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: No
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: No
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Light Refreshment: Yes
Picnics: No
Dogs Allowed: Yes
On Lead only: Yes
Special Events: Yes
Other Facilities:
Lunches by appointment only. Site is unsuitable for physically disabled.
 Garden Features
English Heritage Garden Grade: I
National Collection:
 Description of Garden
Designer:
Stonor Park is a large 3-acre garden behind the Mansion House on a south-facing slope, with spectacular views of the beautiful wooded deer park across and down 2 valleys. The garden features in a 17th century picture which is on public view in the house.

The garden is divided between the original pleasure garden directly behind the house with 17th century terraces and 2 ponds. Adjacent to that is the old kitchen garden now planted with large and long rose and shrub borders interspersed with mature and large apple trees as well as clipped yew trees and long home-grown box hedges.
Flowers include daffodils and narcissi to the north of the walled garden, good blocks of irises, roses and herbaceous plants. At one end of the long northern border is a pretty summer house built circa 1920.
 History of Garden
We have no knowledge of who designed the garden, except that the present Lady Camoys in the 1980's converted the old kitchen garden to the north west of the house into an enlarged pleasure garden. Mention of a new garden is made in 1480 in the family papers, and recent research provides evidence of a walled medieval garden with terraces to the south of the house. This area is now a large lawn open to the park in typical 18th century taste.

To the west of the house and directly behind it, the original pleasure garden remains with two 19th century ponds and an early 20th century summerhouse. In the 19th century, glass houses were built along the northern wall, but have now been removed.
 Nearby Oxford Hotels, Facilities & Amenities
Hotels & Accommodation:
The Knoll, Shiplake
Restaurants:
several in Henley-on-Thames
Inns & Pubs:
Walnut Tree, Fawley
Stag & Huntsman Inn, Hambleden
Five Horseshoes, Maidensgrove
Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
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