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Owner: National Trust Address: Felbrigg Norwich Postcode: NR11 8PR County: Norfolk tel: 01263-837444 fax: 01263 837 032 website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk email: felbrigg //at// nationaltrust.org.uk English Heritage Grade: II* Opening Times: NOTE for 2012: Please check with garden owners or their website to confirm current dates open http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk 5th March - 30th October daily, 11am - 5pm Open BH Mons and Good Fri. Last admission 30mins before closing Best Times of Year to Visit: To see: Colchicums National Collection: Colchicums National Garden Scheme days: Yes Comments: Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: Please book in advance. Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: Garden guided tours available for pre-booked groups. House Open for Viewing: Yes Comments: 5th March - 30th October, Sat - Wed, 11am - 5pm (daily between 21st July & 2nd Sept.) Admission Prices: Adult £9.15, child £4.30, family £22.60. Garden only: £4.30, child £1.90. Visitors with valid bus or train tickets: £1 off entrance price to house and garden. Estate free to pedestrians and cyclists Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: Yes Dogs allowed: No Only on Lead: No Events: Yes Other Facilities: Dogs only admitted to Park & Woods. Ground floor only in hall. Features: One of the most elegant country houses in East Anglia; Remarkable Stuart architecture and fine Georgian interior; Prolific library and Grand Tour collection; Stunning walled garden, orangery and orchards; Many lakeside, parkland and woodland trails to explore Designer: Description of Garden: The garden at Felbrigg is in two halves. The West Garden is typical of the 18th century landscape movement creating a formal link between the Hall and the greater landscape that is its setting. Given a Victorian overlay, focusing on the play between light and shade, it features a ha-ha and orangery, shrubbery and many trees of trans-Atlantic origin. Drift through the garden meadow to the Walled Garden, with its borders of herbs, mixed shrubs, roses and herbaceous plants. The Kitchen Garden is a mix of flowers, fruit and vegetables, featuring a dovecote and pond. The walls are clothed with espaliered pears, peaches, apples, apricots and cherries, with a new Orchard planted with varieties known to have been grown here during the 19th century. History: The Jacobean Hall was built by Thomas Windham and it is likely that it was his great, great, grandson, William Windham III, landlord and patron to the young Humphry Repton from the mid-1770's, who gave the famous garden designer his first opportunity at Felbrigg. During the First World War, many of the fine trees sheltering the garden from the fierce East winds from the North Sea, were felled for timber but they were largely replaced by Robert Windham Ketton-Cremer who also added the Victory V rides in the Coronation group of beeches to commemorate VE-Day. He later bequeathed the estate to the National Trust. Local Inns: George and Dragon Hotel, Cley-next-the-Sea White Horse Hotel, Blakeney Accomodation: White Horse Hotel, Blakeney Shrublands Farm, Northrepps, Cromer Carr House, Strumpshaw, Norwich Restaurants: Village/Town/Sightseeing: Cromer, Sheringham Sheringham Park (NT) Blickling Hall (NT)