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Garden Name: Abbots Ripton Hall
Last Modified: 13/01/2011
Garden ID: 0055

pic: 0055_abbotsriptonhall.jpg

Owner: The Lord & Lady De Ramsey
Address:
Abbots Ripton
Huntingdon

Postcode: PE28 2PQ
County: Cambridgeshire

tel: 07802 282193 or 01206 251790
fax: 
website: www.abbotsriptonhall.co.uk
email: info {at} abbotsriptonhall.co.uk

Features: 
Major Charity Garden show.
Antiques Valuation by Cheffins, Art Show, NAFAS East of England Floral Art Show, Show Gardens, Schools & Garden Club Competition etc.

English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
The Gardens will next be opened for our next Charity Garden Show from 29th June - 1st July 2012 The 2010 Garden Show was a great success and over £55,000 was raised for Cambridgeshire Charities For details of Exhibiting or attending our 2012 Garden Opening and Show contact the numbers shown.

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
June, one opening now every two years

To see: 
Roses and herbaceous borders.

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: No
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments: Open once every 2 years now for major Garden Festival 

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Adults £7; Children under 15 free.
(By appointment, parties of 12 or more)

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: No
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Refreshments: Yes
Picnics: No
Dogs allowed: No
Only on Lead: No
Events: No

Other Facilities:
Over 100 trade stands.
Abbots Ripton Hall Charity Garden Show - Every 2 Years


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.


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: 
The Three Horse Shoes, Abbots Ripon

Accomodation: 
Old Bridge Hotel, Huntingdon
Magdalene House (B&B), Wyton Green (www.magdalene-house.co.uk)

Restaurants: 


Village/Town/Sightseeing: