Bowood House and 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: Bowood House and Gardens Last Modified (we set this): 19-01-2011 Garden ID (we set this): 0157 pic (we set this): 0157_Bowood.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 Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne Address: Bowood House Derry Hill Calne Postcode: SN11 0LZ County: Wiltshire Country: tel: 01249 812012 fax: 01249 821757 website: www.bowood.org public email: houseandgardens //at// bowood.org admin / private email: (add here for GG-only usage) group master website: English Heritage Grade (I, II, II*): I Opening Days & Times: NOTE for 2013: Please check with garden owners or their website to confirm current dates open http://www.bowood.org House & Gardens 1st Apr - 30th Oct; 7 Days a week; 11am - 6pm, Last admission 5pm or an hour earlier after autumn clock change.Rhododendron Walks - Late April - Early June; 7 Days a week; 11am - 6pm (call or check own website for exact dates) Parties / Coaches (Yes/No): Yes Parties / Coaches Comments: Viewing by Appointment (Yes/No): No Viewing by Appointment Comments: House Open for Viewing (Yes/No): Yes House Open Comments/Dates/Times: 11am - 5.30pm National/Scotland Garden Scheme days (Yes/No): Yes NGS/SGS Comments (PLEASE include DATES and Times): 1 day for Rhododendrons only Best Times of Year to Visit: ...To see (pair by line with Best times to visit): Admission Prices: Adult £9.50 Child £5.00 (2-4), £7.50 (5-12); Over 60s £8.00; Family (2A + 2C) £28.50Group Rates: Adult £8.50; Child £4.00 (2-4), £6.50 (5-12); Over 60s £7.00;Rhododendrons: Adults £6.00; Over 60s £ 5.50; Under 16's FreeSeason tickets: Adult £41; Child (2-4) £23; Child (5-12) £35; Over 60s £36,Family Season Ticket (2 adults and 2 children) £125.00Admission charges allow entry into the House, Gardens and Adventure Playground.Disabled visitors half price. All children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. 12 (Yes/No only) items follow here- Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: Yes Plants for Sale: No Lunches: Yes Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: Yes Dogs allowed: No Only on Lead: No Events: Yes Other Facilities or Comments on (Yes/No) items above: Adventure Playground and Soft Play Palace for under 12's. Dogs allowed in the Rhododendron Garden onlyBowood Dog Show & Summer Fair - 12th JuneWiltshire Game & Country Fair - 6th and 7th August Special Features, Events/Dates and other comments: 'Capability' Brown designed parkland, cascade waterfall, lake, Pinetum, Arboretum, Italianate terraced garden.Rhododendron walks - 60 Acre woodland garden with extensive range of rhododendrons, azaleas and bluebells.(separate area to house and garden National Collection: Garden Designer: 'Capability' Brown, Repton, Charles Hamilton Description of Garden: This hundred acre garden and park surrounding the house has features designed by many of the most famous English landscape gardeners and architect/designers. For example 'Capability' Brown created the lovely lake and parkland, Humphry Repton the landscape, Charles Hamilton built the famous cascade and Robert Adam the orangery and mausoleum. Lately Mary Keen has advised on the planting of the Italianate formal gardens using box hedging and gravel to replace grass paths. The important pinetum, arboretum, Doric temple and rhododendron walks are not to be missed. The garden is particularly beautiful in spring with massed bulbs and bluebell woods. Garden History: see above Local Inns (name, town): The Lansdowne Arms - Derry Hill villageGeorge & Dragon, RowdeRed Lion, Laycock Accommodation (name, town): The Strand - Calne Restaurants (name, town): in Bowood House and gardens Village/Town/Sightseeing: