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Garden Name: Crossing House Garden
Last Modified: 20/01/2011
Garden ID: 0130

pic: 0130_CrossingHse.jpg

Owner: Mr and Mrs D Fuller and Mr John Marlar
Address:
78 Meldreth Road
Shepreth
Royston
Postcode: SG8 6PS
County: Cambridgeshire

tel: 01763 261071
fax: 
website: 
email: 

Features: 


English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
All Year; Every day; Dawn to Dusk.

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
May - October.

To see: 


National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: No
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: No Coaches
Car travelling parties welcome.

Viewing by Appointment: No
Comments:  

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Free/Charity Box.

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

Other Facilities:
Parking on grass verge. For Disabled most paths suitable.


Designer: 
Description of Garden:
The garden is just over 1/4 acre lying beside the Kings Cross - Cambridge railway line, and features a very wide range of plants - rare and old favourites crammed into box edged beds. There are various ponds full of water plants and wild life. There is an Alpine house - mostly Auriculas and Lewisias - which are at their best in April.

Two heated greenhouses feature mainly orchids and tender bulbs. The garden soil is alkaline but there is a large acid bed, housing many winter-flowering camellia sasanqua, and also rhododendrons. Five seats are scattered round the garden, making it suitable for people not able to walk far at a time. The six raised beds are full of alpines. A cider mill in front of the garden is filled with water in the summer and pots of plants in winter.


History: 
This is a Level-Crossing house, built around 1850 as a bungalow, with the upper storey added about 1900. The owners have been there since 1959 and were able to buy the property when the crossing was made automatic.

Local Inns: 
The Plough, Shepreth
The Chequers, Fowlmere.

Accomodation: 


Restaurants: 


Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Cambridge 9 Miles
(Botanic Gardens)