Broughton Grange OX15 5DS

Broughton Grange OX15 5DS June 15 2017, 1.45 pm

Broughton Grange is now one of the most significant private contemporary gardens in Britain. The gardens are beautifully set in 350 acres of parkland, farmland and open meadow, with much of the planting owing its origins to the fashions of the Victorian era. In 2001 Tom Stuart-Smith was commissioned to create a 6 acre walled garden, and from 2003 onwards, an arboretum, with a wide range of interesting species and cultivars, covering 80 acres has been under development.

Tom Stuart-Smith describes the walled garden as having a strong formal structure conceived entirely in relation to the surrounding landscape and the views to distant tree clumps, hills, valleys and vistas. At one end of the scale trees and shrubs familiar from the surrounding hedges and woods make up the components of the garden’s structural planting. At the other end of the scale, the microscopic cellular structure of beech, ash and oak leaves from the hedgerow trees surrounding the garden is magnified several thousand times to make the pattern of the parterre on the lowest terrace.

Directions: Broughton Grange OX15 5DS is just a couple of miles SW of Banbury. From M40, exit junction 11 (A361) Follow signs for the A361 Chipping Norton. Continue out of Banbury, pass Tudor Hall School on left and take the next right onto Wykham Lane in the direction of Broughton (single track Road). Broughton Grange is approximately 1km on the left.

Phone number to use on the day in case of difficulties: 07759915205 ------Broughton Grange – Introductory talk, guided tour and refreshments to follow. June 15 2017 1.45pm Name(s)......

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I wish to book...... Places @ £12.50 Members, Non Members...... Places @£13.50 I shall have ...... spare spaces in my car. I should like a lift if possible...... Please make cheques payable to Warwickshire Gardens Trust and send to: Mrs J Handscombe Springfield House Warmington OX17 1DD