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Ripley Castle tel: 01423 770152 Area: Yorkshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.ripleycastle.co.uk -- email: enquiries {at} ripleycastle.co.uk | ||
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Ripley Castle |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||
Every day (except Christmas Day and Boxing Day); 9am - 5pm. 4.30pm in winter months |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes Welcomed. |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes contact Group Tour co-ordinator, Lesley Senior |
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House
Open for Viewing: |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: All year |
To
see: Spring Flowers, Hyacinths, herbaceous borders. |
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| Admission Prices | |||
| Castle & Gardens, Adult £8; Child (5-16) £5; Over 60s £7.50. Children in groups £4.50. Children under 5 free. Gardens only, Adult £5.50; Child £3.50; Over 60s £5. Children in groups £3. Children under 5 free. |
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| Onsite Facilities | |||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: No |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: Yes |
| Other
Facilities: Guide dogs are permitted |
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| Garden Features | |||
| Winner of the "Pro Yorkshire Award for Tourism 2005" Winner of Best Small Visitor Attraction of the Year - Welcome to Yorkshire White Rose Awards |
English Heritage Garden Grade: I | ||
| National Collection: Hyacinths | |||
| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| Ripley Castle gardens are intended to be a delight at any time of the year, but are particularly impressive in the Spring when the wonderful collection of Hyacinths is in bloom in the Walled Garden. There are some 60 varieties of Hyacinth grown here, some traditional, some modern. The remainder of the Walled Garden is filled with lawns, beds and borders and some rare fruit trees. Vegetables, herbs and spices are grown here for the Castle's table. The herbaceous borders are some of the longest in Britain. The extraordinary range of hot houses, renovated in 1991, are some 60 yards long, and contain a huge variety of cacti, ferns and tropical plants including citrus, begonias and bananas. In the centre of the hot houses is the Orangery-cum-Palm House crowned over its whole area by a roof of curved glass, like that of a Dutch barn. In the Pleasure Grounds, a walk around the lake allows glimpses of the herds of Fallow and Red deer which graze under the ancient oak trees. |
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| History of Garden | |||
| The gardens at Ripley were originally intended purely to supply the Castle with fruit and vegetables to complement the home farm's supply of meat and dairy produce. When Sir John Ingilby's over-ambitious plans for rebuilding the castle forced him and his wife into exile in the 1780s, gardening remained one of his consolations and he even requested his agent to bring him over a variety of seeds from Ripley, as they were much better than the ones he could obtain in France. His son, Sir William, started on a massive scheme to improve the estate, and especially the gardens, in the 1820s, with a Walled Garden of 4 acres separated into formal, flower and vegetable gardens by brick and stone walls. He also laid out the Pleasure Grounds of eight acres and the extraordinary set of hot houses on the other side of the wall of the formal garden. |
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| Nearby Yorkshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: The Boar's Head Hotel, Ripley Hob Green, Ripon |
Restaurants: The Boar's Head Hotel, Ripley |
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| Inns & Pubs: The Boar's Head, Ripley Malt Shovel, Brearton |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Harrogate RHS Harlow Carr Gardens Fountains Abbey Yorkshire Dales Newby Hall Castle Howard Harewood House |
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