***************************************************************** * Gardens-Guide.com * 250,000 UNIQUE VISITORS in 2011 * 2,000 garden pages viewed per day from March to September 2011 * * 1,000+ Page Views! - One-Quarter of all gardens listed on Gardens-Guide.com * were EACH viewed more than 1,000 times in 2011. * * 500+ Page Views! - HALF of all gardens listed on Gardens-Guide.com were * EACH viewed more than 500 times in 2011. * ***************************************************************** *** UPDATE FORM *** Clearbeck House 1) Please COPY the entire FORM BELOW 2) Make any changes in BRIGHT RED -OR- mark changed Section Headers with: *** 3) email the ENTIRE FORM UPDATED backto us: wd (at) armchair-travel (dot) com **************************************************************** **************************************************************** **************************************************************** *** also - SEARCH ENGINE BOOSTING for both YOU and Gardens-Guide.com *** If your webmaster could place a link from your own website directly to your page on Gardens-Guide.com, this will improve it's rankings in Google and other search engines. Please use the following format and info on your own site to link to your page in Gardens-Guide.com: at Gardens-Guide.com http://www.gardens-guide.com The premiere directory of open gardens in the UK and Ireland today Ask your friends and suppliers as well to link to your page in Gardens-Guide as well. Every link we get into your page helps rankings for both of us in search engines. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** **************************************************************** Garden Name: Clearbeck House Last Modified: 23-02-2012 Garden ID: 0670 pic: 0670_Clearbeck.jpg NOTE: If this says "missing", then please send us a picture for your page which is at least 1000 x 1000 pixels in size. Thanks! Owner: Peter & Bronwen Osborne Address: Higher Tatham Lancaster Postcode: LA2 8PJ County: Lancashire tel: 01524 261029 fax: website: www.clearbeckgarden.org.uk email: clearbeckarts //at// yahoo.co.uk English Heritage Grade: Opening Times: NGS & parties by appointment. May 29th & 30th; 11am - 5pm June 19th & 26th; 11am - 5pm Best Times of Year to Visit: May - July To see: National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: Yes Comments: May 29th & 30th; 11am - 5pm June 19th & 26th; 11am - 5pm Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: via booking form Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: Parties only House Open for Viewing: No Comments: Admission Prices: Adult £3; Child free Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: Yes Dogs allowed: Yes Only on Lead: Yes Events: No Other Facilities: Artist's studio open in garden. Children's quiz available. Descriptive booklet. Features: Follies, eg pyramid, Rapunzel's Tower with new floor of pebble mosaic by Maggy Haworth; Temple; Lake & Ponds; wildlife; vegetable garden, flower & shrub borders; garden sculpture. Featured by Alan Titchmarsh in BBC2 Alan's Garden Secrets Nov 2010 Designer: The Owners - Mr. & Mrs. Osborne Description of Garden: Formality near the house merges into wilderness around the lake. Beyond that vistas lead the eye to the Three Peaks of Yorkshire and undulating fields local fields grazed by sheep and cattle. Across the garden are sculptures and follies. Most notable of theses are the pyramid, at the entrance to the symbolic garden of Life & Death, Rapunzels' tower and a temple beside a pool. Don Quixote on his horse has a prominent position: the Last Tzar on his huge seat and sculptures portraying the Four Seasons maze all add to the fun. The most recent sculpture is a fish carved on the land with CDs as its scales. The planting is exuberant. The bog garden with bistort, clematis and primulas in Spring leads to borders of cottage garden plants in early summer with roses that climb high into the trees by July. The topiary of yew and box give form to the garden. The sound of the Clearbeck as it passes through the garden adds another dimension. History: Progressively created from a derelict farm with views of the Three Peaks since 1972. Major re-structuring in 1991 with the creation of Lake Setaside. Open 20 years for NGS. Local Inns: Inn at Wray The Lunesdale, Tunstall Accomodation: in Kirby Lonsdale Restaurants: Bridge House, Wray Village/Town/Sightseeing: Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Three Peaks Area, N. Yorks. Lancaster. Kirby Lonsdale