Abbots Ripton Hall 1) Please COPY the ENTIRE FORM below and paste it into an email to start 2) UPDATE your information carefully. We check it, but might not notice any errors, etc. 3) Prefix the SECTION HEADERS with: *** - Example: ***Opening Days: (new info) 4) email the ENTIRE FORM UPDATED back to us ASAP: wd (at) armchair-travel (dot) com **************************************************************** **************************************************************** Garden Name: Abbots Ripton Hall Last Modified (we set this): 27-01-2013 Garden ID (we set this): 0055 pic (we set this): 0055_abbotsriptonhall.jpg NOTE: If "missing", then please send us a picture for which is at least 1000 x 1000 pixels in size. Thanks! Garden Owner: The Lord & Lady De Ramsey Address: Abbots Ripton Huntingdon Postcode: PE28 2PQ County: Cambridgeshire Country: tel: 07802 282193 or 01206 251790 fax: website: www.abbotsriptonhall.co.uk public email: info //at// abbotsriptonhall.co.uk admin / private email: (add here for GG-only usage) group master website: English Heritage Grade (I, II, II*): Opening Days & Times: Opens once every two years. Next open 28th - 29th June 2014 Parties / Coaches (Yes/No): Yes Parties / Coaches Comments: Viewing by Appointment (Yes/No): No Viewing by Appointment Comments: Open once every 2 years now for major Garden Festival House Open for Viewing (Yes/No): No House Open Comments/Dates/Times: National/Scotland Garden Scheme days (Yes/No): No NGS/SGS Comments (PLEASE include DATES and Times): Best Times of Year to Visit: 28th - 29th June 2014, one opening now every two years ...To see (pair by line with Best times to visit): Roses and herbaceous borders. Admission Prices: Adults £8; Children under 15 free. 12 (Yes/No only) items follow here- Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: No Dogs allowed: No Only on Lead: No Events: No Other Facilities or Comments on (Yes/No) items above: 27th June 2014 - Gala Preview Evening - Parachute Regiment Band6-9pm. Tickets £15 Donation.Over 100 trade stands.Abbots Ripton Hall Charity Garden Show - Every 2 Years Special Features, Events/Dates and other comments: Major Charity Garden show 28th - 29th June 2014Gardens Open, Adult & Schools Garden Competitions, Gardening & Food Talks including Steve Brookes, BBC Presenter & Author 'The Greatest Gardening Tips in the World', Brass Bands, Silent Auction and Afternoon Teas. National Collection: Oaks Garden Designer: Description of Garden: The gardens contain many fine old trees, including elms injected annually against Dutch elm disease, and some very rare ones, such as the lovely Acer Cappadocicum and the Fraxinus Angustifolia 'Raywood', whose leaves turn purple in autumn. Spectacular roses include the very old 'Rosa Shailer's White Moss' replanted in 1940 in the herbaceous border by Lord de Ramsey's mother, though first recorded in 1788. Garden History: The Abbots Ripton Estate has grown from 2,000 acres, originally purchased in 1737 by Coulson Fellowes, and now totals some 5,700 acres. The first member of the Fellowes family to live at Abbots Ripton Hall was another Coulson Fellowes - grandfather of the present Lord De Ramsey. During WWI the hall was converted into a hospital and administered by Lord de Ramsey's great-grandmother, daughter of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill.When the Lord De Ramsey's father took up residence in the hall in 1937, the gardens contained many fine old trees - an ideal framework for his parents to build up the gardens to the eight acres seen today. Humphrey Waterfield, in the 1950's, designed the Rose circle and Grey Border and added rare trees to the arboretum. Other plantings were undertaken by Lanning Roper and Jim Russell. Peter Foster, surveyor to Westminster Abbey, designed the architectural features including the Gothic Trellis and Constable Pavilion. Local Inns (name, town): Abbots Elm, Abbots Ripton PE28 2PA Accommodation (name, town): Old Bridge Hotel, HuntingdonMagdalene House (B&B), Wyton Green (www.magdalene-house.co.uk) Restaurants (name, town): Village/Town/Sightseeing: