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Garden Name: Kingston Lacy
Last Modified: 19/01/2011
Garden ID: 0272

pic: 0272_KingstonLacy.jpg

Owner: National Trust
Address:
Wimborne Minster


Postcode: BH21 4EA
County: Dorset

tel: 01202-883402
fax: 01202-882402
website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk
email: kingstonlacy {at} nationaltrust.org.uk

Features: 
Elegant country mansion with important collections, set in attractive formal gardens and extensive parkland; Encased in stone by Charles Barry - architect of the Houses of Parliament; Outstanding collection of Old Master paintings, with works by Van Dyck, Titian and Brueghel; Spanish Room, with walls hung in magnificent gilded leather; Wooded parkland with magnificent snowdrop displays in early spring; Children's adventure playground; Iron Age hill fort; Badbury Rings (point-to-points held here on three days a year)

English Heritage Grade:
II

Opening Times:
3rd Jan - 11th Mar; daily; 10.30am - 4pm, 
12th Mar - 30th Oct; daily; 10.30am - 6pm, 
31st Oct - 23rd Dec; daily; 10:30am - 4pm
Admission by timed ticket to house may operate on BH Suns & Mons. Open BH Mons. Garden, park, shop and restaurant closed 24th, 25th, 26th and 31st December; open 27th to 30th December.

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
Spring and summer.

To see: 
Azaleas, camellias, rhododendrons, bedding plants and roses.

National Collection: 
Anemone Nemorosa and
Convallaria

National Garden Scheme days: No
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: No 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments:  

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: 12th Mar - 30th Oct
Admission by timed ticket to house may operate on BH Suns & Mons. Open BH Mons. Last admission 4pm

Admission Prices:
Gift Aid Admission (Standard Admission prices in brackets)
House and gardens: adult £12 (£10.50), child £6 (£5.25), family £30 (£26.25).
Gardens only: adult £6 (£5.25), child £3 (£2.70), family £15 (£13)

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:
Dogs in park only, not in gardens.


Designer: Sir Roger Pratt in 1663
Description of Garden:
At Kingston Lacy there are 32 acres of garden and woodland with rosebeds and extensive lawns approximately of 6 acres.

The garden includes a Parterre with formal bedding scheme, Victorian fernery and a sunk garden. Further on is a nursery wood. The trail then leads to an area called Blindwalk which leads to the Cricket Walk. The visitor then encounters Lime Avenue, planted in the 17th century, and soon after that Laurel Walk.

Cedar of Lebanon trees form the Cedar Avenue which leads from the Nursery Wood and back to the house. There is also a huge Copper Beech.


History: 
During the 18th century the garden was landscaped in traditional style. The parterre was laid out in 1899.

Local Inns: 
Langton Arms, Tarrant Monkton

Accomodation: 
Ashton Lodge, Wimborne Minster

Restaurants: 
Les Bouviers, Wimborne Minster

Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Winborne Minster