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Garden Name: Charts Edge
Last Modified: 26/01/2011
Garden ID: 0557

pic: 0557_ChartsEdge.jpg

Owner: Sarah Bigwood
Address:
Hosey Hill
Westerham

Postcode: TN16 1PL
County: Kent

tel: 01959 565541
fax: 51.2582,0.0776
website: www.chartsedgegardens.co.uk
email: info {at} chartsedgegardens.co.uk

Features: 
Rock gardens with over 150 varieties of plants. Sculpture trail. New rill garden and rainbow border.
Featured on TV.

English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
15th Apr - 18th Sept; every Fri & Sun; 2pm - 5pm

Best Times of Year to Visit: 


To see: 


National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Comments: 15th May; 2pm - 5pm
12th June; 2pm - 5pm
17th July; 2pm - 5pm

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments: Yes, if outside normal opening times 

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Adult £4 Over 60s £3.50; Child free
Private tours: £5 per head which includes tea and biscuits and a tour by the Head Gardener.

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

Other Facilities:



Designer: Mrs. P. Bigwood
Description of Garden:
A 9-acre hillside garden which is still being restored. It has a large collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias with some fine specimen trees and, in its mixed borders, many rare plants. The majority of the plants are labelled. There is also a Victorian folly, a rock garden and water cascade, new rainbow borders and a rill to complete the picture. There are fine views from the garden over the North Downs.


History: 
Originally Charts Edge was a Victorian House and garden in private ownership. In the 1970s it was sold to an equestrian family who neglected the garden, but it has been restored by the present owners since they bought it in 1989.

Local Inns: 
Grasshopper, Westerham

Accomodation: 
Kings Arms, Westerham

Restaurants: 
Many in Westerham

Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Westerham
Chartwell
Squerryes Court
Quebec House
Emmetts
Hever Castle
Penshurst
Knowle
Chiddingstone Castle