Arley Hall & Gardens 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: Arley Hall & Gardens Last Modified (we set this): 29-01-2013 Garden ID (we set this): 0414 pic (we set this): 0414_ArleyHall.jpg NOTE: If "missing", then please send us a picture for which is at least 1000 x 1000 pixels in size. Thanks! Garden Owner: Viscount Ashbrook Address: Northwich Postcode: CW9 6NA County: Cheshire Country: tel: 01565 777353 fax: 01565 777465 website: www.arleyhallandgardens.com public email: helen.robinson //at// arleyhallandgardens.com admin / private email: (add here for GG-only usage) group master website: English Heritage Grade (I, II, II*): II* Opening Days & Times: Gardens, Chapel, Gift Shop & Tudor Barn RestaurantMonday - Sunday inclusiveMarch 29th - September 30th 2013Weekends in October11am - 5pm (last entry 4.30pm)The HallSunday & Bank Holidays only.Pre-booked group visits available Monday through to Sunday. March 29th - September 30th 201311am - 5pm (last entry 4.00pm)Hall access will be run on a guided tour basis only.The NurseryOpen Monday - Friday 10am - 5.30pmOpen Saturday, Sunday & Bank Holidays11am - 5.30pmMarch 29th - September 30th 2013 Parties / Coaches (Yes/No): Yes Parties / Coaches Comments: Minimum 15 people Viewing by Appointment (Yes/No): Yes Viewing by Appointment Comments: House Open for Viewing (Yes/No): Yes House Open Comments/Dates/Times: Sunday & Bank Holidays only National/Scotland Garden Scheme days (Yes/No): Yes NGS/SGS Comments (PLEASE include DATES and Times): See website for dates Best Times of Year to Visit: SpringSummerAutumn ...To see (pair by line with Best times to visit): Spring bulbs, Azaleas, RhododendronsWalled gardens, herbaceous border, rosesExotic trees & shrubs, autumn tints. Admission Prices: Gardens & HallAdults £10.00Children u16 (u5 free) £4.00Senior citizen £9.00Family (2+2) £25.00Gardens OnlyAdults £7.50Children u16 (u5 free) £3.00Senior citizen £7.00Family (2+2) £18.00Please note that tickets cannot be purchased online after 4pm on Fridays. All tickets purchased can be collected in the shop on arrival.Group Rates :Gardens onlyAdults £6.50Seniors £6.00Children (5-16) £2.00Guided tour with Head Gardener (max 25 persons-subject to availability) £80.00Hall and Gardens :Adults £9.00Seniors £8.00Children (5-16) £3.50 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: Yes Dogs allowed: Yes Only on Lead: Yes Events: Yes Other Facilities or Comments on (Yes/No) items above: Garden Festival, Christmas Events and other plant fairs - see website for details. Special Features, Events/Dates and other comments: 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. National Collection: Garden Designer: Egerton-Warbutons and Ashbrooks Description of Garden: 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". Garden History: 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. Local Inns (name, town): The Thorn, AppletonGeorge & Dragon, Great Budworth Accommodation (name, town): Hanover International, StrettonCottons, Knutsford Restaurants (name, town): Village/Town/Sightseeing: ChesterGt. Budworth, (old estate village).