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Garden Name: Bodysgallen Hall
Last Modified: 30/01/2010
Garden ID: 0285

pic: 0285_Bodysgallen.jpg

Owner: Historic House Hotels
Address:
Llandudno
North Wales

Postcode: LL30 1RS
County: Wales

tel: 01492-584466
fax: 01492-582519
website: www.bodysgallen.com
email: macj {at} bodysgallen.com

Features: 
Over 200 acres of its own parkland and beautiful gardens - both manicured and wild.
Terrace Walk, the Ladies Walk, the Eastern Covert Walk or the Pydew Village Walk that lead to a Gothic Tower and the obleisk located on top of Pydew mountain.

English Heritage Grade:
I

Opening Times:
All year to patrons of the hotel only.

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
Spring and Summer

To see: 


National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Comments: 11th Aug.

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments:  

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: For hotel patrons.

Admission Prices:


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

Other Facilities:



Designer: 
Description of Garden:
Bodysgallen is situated on high ground on a peninsular facing south, with a series of descending terraces which have been carved out of the hillside. The house stands alone beside a broad stone pine with mottled bark and large pine cones, and the stone walls of the house are skirted with Cotoneaster microphyllus. The garden at Bodysgallen is well known for its 17th century box hedged parterre, which is colourfully planted with herbs. The lower gardens are surrounded by high stone walls, the largest of which encloses the rose garden, with a courtyard and lily pond at its upper level. 

Outside the walled garden is a cascade which tumbles down the rocks, overshadowed by two large yew trees and crossed by narrow paths which lead back to the walled rose garden. The similarly enclosed kitchen garden has espalier-trained fruit trees hedging off the cut flower area, and walls are covered in wineberry and Chinese gooseberry. A slope covered in a hebe and rock rose collection, with a path lined in variegated Weigela florida and Saxifraga umbrosa, rises to the start of the Woodland Walk. This ancient natural wood is the site of the 18th century Ladies Terrace with views of Conwy Castle and the river valley.

The terrace shows off specimens of the rare native service tree and a massive chestnut. The walk through the woods continues to an uphill zig-zag path, leading to a fortified folly from which the elegant obelisk on Bodysgallen's highest point can be seen. The landscape of Bodysgallen remains unspoilt, protected by its own two hundred acres of farm and parkland, much as it has been for generations.


History: 


Local Inns: 
Queen's Head, Glanwydden
Groes Inn, Tyn-y-Groes

Accomodation: 
The Dining Room & 1620 Bistro at Bodysgallen

Restaurants: 
In hotel at Bodysgallen

Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Llandudno
Great orme
Snowdonia
Betws-y-Coed