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Garden Name: Lanhydrock
Last Modified: 19/01/2011
Garden ID: 0273

pic: 0273_Lanhydrock.jpg

Owner: National Trust
Address:
Bodmin


Postcode: PL30 5AD
County: Cornwall

tel: 01208-265950
fax: 01208-265959
website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-lanhydrock
email: lanhydrock {at} nationaltrust.org.uk

Features: 
Magnificent late Victorian country house with extensive servants' quarters, gardens and wooded estate; 17th-century gatehouse and long gallery; The ultimate 19th-century 'Upstairs/Downstairs' experience; Fabulous collection of spring-flowering magnolias and bluebell woods; Adventure playground, with wobbly bridge, scramble nets and animal sculptures; Successful dormouse monitoring programme; Film location for The Three Musketeers (1993) and Twelfth Night (1996)

English Heritage Grade:
II*

Opening Times:
All year, 10 - 6, Sun - Sat
Plant centre; 19th Feb - 30th Oct; 11 - 5
House open Bank Holiday Mondays and Mondays during state school holidays. Plant centre also open Mondays April to September to 5:30 and Mondays in October. Refreshments open 10:30, 26 February to 30 October. Closed 25 and 26 December. Shop and refreshments are inside the tariff area. Last admission 30 minutes before closing.

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
Spring

To see: 
Rhododendrons, magnolia and camellias.

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: No
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments:  

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: 26th Feb - 31st Mar; 11 - 5, Tues - Sun 
1st Apr - 30th Sep; 11 - 5:30 Tues - Sun
1st Oct - 30th Oct; 11 - 5 Tues - Sun

Admission Prices:
Gift Aid Admission (Standard Admission prices in brackets)
House and garden: adult £11.50 (£10.40), child £5.70 (£5.10), family £28.60 (£26), family (1 adult) £17.20 (£15.60).
Garden and grounds: adult £6.75 (£6.10), child £3.65 (£3.30).
Reduced rate when arriving by bicycle or public transport

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:
Powered self-drive buggy; Braille guides for House & Garden; small lift to 1st Floor; wheelchair route and map for garden. Dogs on lead allowed in Park and woods, but not allowed in gardens unless an assisting dog. Tie up point available and shaded car parking - 'phone for details


Designer: 
Description of Garden:
Unusually for Cornwall, the majority of the gardens are laid out above the house, providing spectacular views of the rooftops framed by flowers from the many walks through the hillside woods. Around the house, the lawns with formal parterres planted with roses and bedding plants and about 30 huge topiary yews provide a beautiful and restful setting.

At the edge of the lawns there are some fine trees, amongst them Copper beeches planted by William Gladstone and Lord Roseberry, the 19th century Prime Ministers, and an extraordinary Field Maple covered in mosses and lichens. In the Higher Garden some astonishingly large stands of rhododendrons and camellias provide huge splashes of colour in spring and early summer. These contrast with the magnolias, some of which form a tunnel of blossom and which are complemented by drifts of white Pheasant's Eye Narcissi in the Top Walk.


History: 
The house dates from 1634, but was radically re-modelled by George Gilbert Scott in 1857 for the 1st Baron Robartes. At the same time Scott laid out the garden in a formal design with low crenellated walls dividing it into sections. The design was simplified before WWII, although the parterres remain. In 1914 Lady Clifden laid out herbaceous borders surrounded by a semi-circular yew hedge which was augmented by the National Trust in 1971 by completing the circle and planting more beds. The 7th Viscount Clifden imported more spectacular varieties of shrubs and trees after he inherited the property in 1930.

Local Inns: 
Crown, Lanlivery
Royal Oak, Lostwithiel

Accomodation: 
Royal Oak, Lostwithiel
Lostwithiel Golf & Country Club.

Restaurants: 


Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
City of Truro (25 miles)
Bodmin Moor (5 miles)
Trerice (NT- near Newquay, 20 miles)