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Garden Name: Barford Park
Last Modified: 20/01/2011
Garden ID: 0316

pic: 0316_BarfordPark.jpg

Owner: Mr. M. Stancomb
Address:
Enmore, Spaxton
Bridgwater

Postcode: TA5 1AG
County: Somerset

tel: 01278-671269
fax: 
website: 
email: 

Features: 


English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
Open only by appointment

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
Late May and June.

To see: 
Primulas in the Water Garden.

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: No
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: Up to 45 people.

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments:  

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Adult, House and Garden £5; Garden only £3.

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

Other Facilities:
Disabled access is possible to most of the garden.


Designer: Dame Sylvia Crowe
Description of Garden:
Barford Park is noted for its quiet seclusion and the lovely Georgian house with its small-scale but perfect landscaping melding into the surrounding farmland. The park, with its many fine trees, is divided from the gardens by a ha-ha. The terrace and lawns are complemented by a pond with goldfish and there is a woodland and water garden with rhododendrons, azaleas, primulas and gunnera. The walled flower garden can be viewed from the house and is almost an extension of it.


History: 
The House was originally a farmhouse with a two-storey Queen Anne front added in 1710. The top storey and wings were added in 1750 and the gardens were laid out at about the same time. The Everard family of Otterhampton owned the estate from the early 19th century until it was sold to the Stancombs, the present owners, in 1956. By then both the house and gardens were in a very bad state, but restoration was begun in 1960 to a design by Dame Sylvia Crowe.

Local Inns: 
Blue Ball Inn, Triscombe, near Flaxpool.

Accomodation: 
Bashford's Farmhouse, West Bagborough.

Restaurants: 


Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Enmore
Quantock Hills.