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Garden Name: Croxteth Hall & Country Park
Last Modified: 10/02/2010
Garden ID: 0226

pic: 0226_Croxteth.jpg

Owner: City of Liverpool
Address:
Croxteth Hall Lane
Liverpool

Postcode: L12 0HB
County: Merseyside

tel: 0151 228 5311
fax: 
website: www.croxteth.co.uk
email: Ian.Craven {at} liverpool.gov.uk

Features: 
Victorian walled garden
Mushroom house
Flue walls
Botanic Houses
Heritage trained trees

English Heritage Grade:
II

Opening Times:
4th Apr - 4th Oct; 7 days a week; 10.30am- 5pm. (out of hours by appointment only) Last admission 30mins before closing.

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
April/May
Mid - late summer
Throughout season

To see: 
Apple and pear blossom
Perennial borders, fruit & veg
Liverpool's historic Botanical collection

National Collection: 
Hardy fuchsias
Solenostemon
Dracena
Codiaeum

National Garden Scheme days: no
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: Free coach parking.

Viewing by Appointment: No
Comments: Discount for pre-booked groups of 20+ 

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Saver Ticket (Admission to Hall, Farm & Garden) Adult £5.50; Child & Over 60's £3.50; Family (2A + 2C) £14.50
Ticket for Garden only: Adult £1.90; Child & Over 60s £1.20
Historic Hall: Adult £2.75; Child & Over 60s £2p
Home Farm: Adult £2.75; Child & Over 60s £2p
Child under 3 Free


Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Refreshments: Yes
Picnics: Yes
Dogs allowed: Yes
Only on Lead: Yes
Events: Yes

Other Facilities:
Disabled parking adjacent to hall. Free parking for all.
Edwardian stately home featuring life "Upstairs and Downstairs".
Rare breeds visitor farm. 
Jungle Parc - Treetop Adventure park
Many events - see own website


Designer: 
Description of Garden:
A Victorian walled garden retaining many of its period features, including heated flue walls, a mushroom house and elaborately trained fruit trees. The high walls provide a sheltered environment to grow vegetables, soft fruit etc. but also have colourful borders of perennials, an organic plot and greenhouses with Liverpool's historic Botanic Collection.



History: 
The garden traditionally supplied produce to Croxteth Hall, just next to the garden. The Hall was the home of the Earls of Sefton from about 1575 until the death of the last earl in 1972. The Hall, Farm and Gardens are part of an historic estate comprising parkland and woodland extending to over 500 acres.

Local Inns: 
Fox & Hounds, Barnston

Accomodation: 


Restaurants: 
cafˇ on site

Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Liverpool waterfront
Aintree racecourse
National Wildflower Centre
Knowsley Safari Park