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THE 2018 MEMBERS GUIDE TO ATTRACTIONS, , HOUSES AND MUSEUMS

www.cpre.org.uk PROPERTIES AND ATTRACTIONS 2018 Shakespeare’s New Place pg. 40

Hello and welcome to the 2018 edition of CPRE’s Members Guide to Attractions, Gardens, Houses and Museums. I am delighted to say that new for this year’s Guide we have Askham Hall Gardens in Penrith, . These Grade II listed gardens are full of stunning features, including colourful terraces, a 230ft long double herbaceous border, unusual species of plants, formal lawns, kitchen gardens, woodland, meadows and ponds. Also new this year is Walsingham Abbey Grounds & Shirehall Museum, Norfolk. The and grounds surrounding Walsingham Abbey are famous for the spectacular ruins of the mediaeval Priory and place of pilgrimage. The Georgian Shirehall, for 200 years a courtroom but originally built as a pilgrim hostel, is now a Museum, and your way in to the Abbey Grounds. The New Forest Wildlife Park is featured for the first time in this year’s guide. Follow the woodland trails to see amazing animals in beautiful natural settings including bison, lynx wolves and wild boar. Returning this year are Place Gardens & Brodgale Collection in and West Dean Gardens in . The attractions featured in the guide kindly offer discounts to our members at their CPRE campaigns for a beautiful and living countryside. own expense, so it is important we support them. If you do have any comments regarding your experiences at any of the venues, please do not hesitate to contact the Supporter Services team on 020 7981 2870 or send us an email at supporterservices@ Campaign to Protect Rural cpre.org.uk – It is always great to hear about your visit. 5-11 Lavington Street, , SE1 0NZ. I really hope that you are able to visit at least one attraction this year. Don’t forget to Tel: 020 7981 2870 take your membership card and this guide with you. Email: [email protected] • Website: www.cpre.org.uk Thank you so much for being a member of CPRE. Without your support, CPRE would not have the strong voice it needs to campaign for a beautiful and living countryside. With warmest regards from all at CPRE.

CPRE is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England, number 4302973. Registered charity number1089685. Bill Sharkey Printed on paper manufactured from woodpulp sourced from sustainable forests. Head of Supporter Services Cover: Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and Gardens, pg. 38 PS: Don’t forget as a CPRE member you qualify for a 10% discount on outdoor clothes and equipment from Cotswold Outdoor. HOW TO USE THE DISCOUNT OFFER COUNTIES The properties in the guide have agreed to give CPRE members a discounted entry to their property. Avonside...... 4 ...... 23 • The discount agreed is for one discount per membership card (physical card only). ...... 4 London...... 24 • The number of members in a household membership does not increase the number of discounts available. ...... 4 Norfolk...... 25 • Lone members visiting a property that offers a 2 for 1 ...... 5 discount are not entitled to 50% reduction on their single Northamptonshire...... 27 ticket instead. • The discounts cannot be used for special event days. ...... 5 Northumberland...... 27 • Please remember to take your membership card and this ...... 7 ...... 28 guide with you when you visit. Cumbria...... 9 Oxfordshire...... 28 Glastonbury Abbey pg. 30 ...... 10 Rutland...... 29 ...... 10 Shropshire...... 30 ...... 13 ...... 30 Durham...... 14 Staffordshire...... 31 ...... 15 ...... 32 ...... 15 ...... 33 ...... 17

Hertfordshire ...... 18 Sussex...... 34

Isle of Wight...... 19 Warwickshire...... 38

Kent...... 19 ...... 40

Lancashire...... 22 ...... 41

Leicestershire...... 22 Yorkshire...... 42 Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

Steam or Diesel trains operate Saturday [email protected] AVONSIDE & Sunday, April to September (except A 70 minute return journey by narrow- the first Saturday of each month) plus gauge steam train on a line with Great AVON VALLEY RAILWAY selected Wednesdays from May to War origins. Departures from Page's September, Sundays in October and Bitton Railway Station, Bath Road, Park Station, on the south side of the Tuesday to Thursday during school Bitton, , BS30 6HD town: follow the brown signs from the summer and half term holidays. town centre, or A505/A4146 southern 2 tickets for the price of 1 - lowest www.avonvalleyrailway.org bypass. price free. Valid on dates with 0117 9325538 Timetables A, B & D only. Not valid for Leighton Buzzard (2 miles). Arriva D1 special event days or for our dining or runs frequently to Page's Park from [email protected] Santa trains. main-line station, Grand Union canal and town centre. Not Sundays or The Avon Valley Railway is returning Full access to the station site. Bank Holidays. steam to Bristol and Bath. See our Ramped access onto the heritage Departures vary so see website or beautifully restored station, take a ride carriages for wheelchair users. call for details. in a heritage carriage behind one of BEDFORDSHIRE 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Not our steam or diesel locomotives, enjoy valid for travel on special event days lunch or afternoon tea in the buffet LEIGHTON BUZZARD RAILWAY and not in December. and pick up a railway-themed souvenir Disabled access. in our gift shop. Pages Park Station, Billington Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 4TG BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 4 Keynsham Station (National Rail) 1.5 www.buzzrail.co.uk Cowper & Newton Museum miles. Bus Stop 100m. 01525 373888 CHILTERN OPEN AIR MUSEUM 26th March – 25th October. Daily, Avon Valley Railway Newland Park, Gorelands Lane, 10am - 5pm. (Last admission Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, 3.30pm). HP8 4AB 2 tickets for the price of 1, with www.coam.org.uk cheapest admission being free. Offer not valid with any other special offer or 01494 871117 discount. Does not apply to Halloween Spectacular, special Evening Events or [email protected] Enchanted Museum. Explore over 30 rescued historic buildings, Adult wheelchairs and two electric including an Iron Age roundhouse to a scooters available (bookable in 1940s prefab, blacksmith's forge and advance). Call Museum Office for full working historic farm, set in 45 acres access details. Disabled toilet. of Chilterns countryside. Adventure COWPER & NEWTON MUSEUM playground, farm animals, tea room, experience days, hands-on activities and Orchard Side, Market Place, Olney, special events for all the family. Buckinghamshire, MK46 4AJ Chiltern Line from Marylebone www.cowperandnewtonmuseum.org.uk or Metropolitan Line from Baker Street to Chalfont & Latimer or 01234 711516 Chorleywood, then short taxi ride to house-manager@

© Sapper Sam Bilner the Museum. cowperandnewtonmuseum.org.uk Relive Georgian Life in Olney. Historic The cottage is 16th century Grade 1 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Garden daily all year 11am - 5pm townhouse, tranquil gardens and some listed, the only surviving building where Does not apply to events outside our (closes at dusk in Winter). House of the greatest stories of the era. the great poet and parliamentarian lived normal opening hours (e.g. craft fairs, strictly by prior appointment only William Cowper, poet, letter-writer, and where he completed 'Paradise Lost'. NGS open days) throughout the year. and gardener lived in this 18th century There is a museum of world class Milton's Disabled access to visitor centre and Half price adult admission, except on house. John Newton, former slave- works and also a Grade 2 registered garden, but not on Brewery Tours. special/fundraising event days. trader turned evangelical minister, garden filled with trees, plants and THE MANOR Wheelchair access to garden and abolitionist and author of "Amazing flowers mentioned in Milton’s works. dining room only. Grace" lived close by. Together they Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon, Railway stations at Chalfont & CHESHIRE wrote the ‘Olney Hymns’. Exhibitions Cambridgeshire, PE28 9BN Hatimer and Gerrards Cross Station of their lives plus Olney's past social www.greenknowe.co.uk (3 miles) ADLINGTON HALL & GARDENS and trade life, with beautiful flower 01480 463134 and vegetable gardens. Olney is on April - October: Wednesday, Thursday, Mill Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield, the A509, 5 miles North of Newport Friday & Saturday 2pm - 5pm. Plus [email protected] Cheshire, SK10 4LF Pagnell and 7 miles from Junction 14 all four bank holiday weekends. See Built circa 1130 and one of the oldest www.adlingtonhall.com of the M1. Olney is easily accessible website for details. continuously inhabited houses in by car from Bedford, Northampton, 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 but Britain. Made famous as 'Green Knowe' 01625 827595 offer does not extend to special by the author Lucy Boston. Garden Wellingborough, Milton Keynes and the [email protected] M1 motorway. events. Only one discount per card. laid out by Lucy, surrounded by moat, Adlington Hall lies in the heart of the Bus services from Milton Keynes Central For parties of 15 and over the Leader is with topiary, old roses, award winning Cheshire countryside nestled between Station and Bedford Station, both call complimentary. Parties of any number irises & herbaceous borders. By the Alderley Edge and Prestbury. Set in at the bus stop opposite the Bull at any time by prior arrangement river in Hemingford Grey, South East of 5 glorious gardens encompassing a 2000 or Market Place. See website for more within the months of April to October. Huntingdon. acre estate, the Hall reflects the diverse details and links to timetables. Huntingdon Station (6miles). Wheelchair access by prior arrangement Stagecoach Buses A and B from history of English architecture and the 13th February - 14th December; Tuesday Cambridge to St Ives then walk (one 700 year story of a single family, the - Saturday; 10.30am - 4.30pm. (3pm CAMBRIDGESHIRE and a half miles) or taxi to The Manor. Leghs. Half mile off A523. closing time throughout December) 2 for 1 admission. Does not include ELGOODS BREWERY GARDEN Elgoods Brewery Garden Annual Pass. Offer does not extend to Elgood & Sons Ltd, 72 North Brink, special events. Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13 1LW Wheelchair access to ground floor www.elgoods-brewery.co.uk shop only, easy access to and gardens. 01945 583160

MILTON'S COTTAGE, MUSEUM AND [email protected] LITERARY GARDEN Working family brewery and 4 acre 21 Deanway, Chalfont St. Giles, garden with 200 year old trees, lake and Buckinghamshire, HP8 4JH maze. Tea room, licensed bar, gifts & plants. About 1 mile west of town centre www.miltonscottage.org beside the River Nene. March station (10 miles); Wisbech 01494 872313 bus station (3/4 mile). 1st May - 28th September Tuesday - [email protected] Friday 10.30am - 4.30pm Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

7 miles from Whitchurch station Fully lived-in Tudor Manor House. along A49. No local bus service. Dating from 1480, the Hall features Access by car only. fine paintings, sculpture and stained 30th March to 27th September; glass. Once home to Mary Fitton, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday and dark Lady of Shakespeares sonnets. Bank Holidays. October – open Garden theatre runs every summer in Sundays only for Autumn Tints. 11am- courtyard Rose Garden. 5pm (last entry 4.30pm). Please see our website for amendments to Macclesfield Train/Bus 3 miles away. opening days and events. 20th May to 16th September: Sundays 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 2pm - 5pm. 27th June to 24th August: excluding Event Days. Wednesday to Sunday inclusive 2pm Partial wheelchair access. - 5pm. 2 Adult tickets for the price of 1. Cholmondley Castle COMBERMERE ABBEY Does not include special events, theatre & bank holidays. Combermere, Whitchurch, Adlington Station (0.5 mile) or March to October; Sundays, Mondays Cheshire, SY13 4AJ Limited access. Macclesfield Station (5 miles). & Bank Holidays. Gardens, Chapel Sunday afternoons from 8th April to open 12noon - 5pm. Hall open www.combermereabbey.co.uk NORTON PRIORY MUSEUM & 30th September, plus Bank Holiday 1.30pm to 4pm (last entry 3.30pm). 01948 662 880 GARDENS Mondays: 7th May, 28th May & 27th 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 on Tudor Road, Manor Park, Runcorn, August. Open from 2pm – 5pm (last 6 Sundays during our open season. Does [email protected] Cheshire, WA7 1SX entry to Hall 3.45pm). Please note not include special event days. that the hall and gardens will be Explore the unique 5 acre walled www.nortonpriory.org Limited wheelchair access. Compacted gardens of 12th century Combermere closed on Sunday 27th May 2018 for 01928 569895 a private event. gravel paths, ground floor of hall only. Abbey, the pleasure garden and the garden wood, with fabulous lake views. [email protected] Half price admission. CHOLMONDELEY CASTLE GARDEN Refreshments are available. A must Norton Priory is a 42 acre site including Cholmondeley, Malpas, Cheshire, SY14 8ET see opportunity. Located on the A530 Limited wheelchair access. Nantwich - Whitchurch. medieval ruins, woodlands, orchards, wildflower meadow, and 2.5 acre CAPESTHORNE HALL www.cholmondeleycastle.com Whitchurch Station: 5 miles. Wrenbury Station: 3 miles. Georgian Walled Garden often described 01829 720383 as a ‘hidden gem’ and home to the Siddington, Cheshire, SK11 9JY Various Wednesday afternoons: 30th National Collection of Tree Quince. A new [email protected] May, 27th June & 26th September. www.capesthorne.com museum telling the 900 year story of the Extensive ornamental gardens 1pm-5pm (Last entry 4pm). site opened in 2016 following £4.5m 01625 861221 dominated by a romantic revival 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. renovation with events on throughout Castle, built in 1801 of local sandstone. Offer limited to garden only. the year. If using Sat Nav for directions [email protected] Beautiful Temple Garden, extended and Partial wheelchair access. please use WA7 1BD for address. The Hall dates from 1719 when it was refurbished Rose Garden and 100m originally designed by the Smiths of long double mixed borders. Woodland GAWSWORTH HALL Runcorn or Runcorn East Station. Warwick. It was altered in 1837 by Blore walk well planted with rhododendrons, Open daily April to October 10am and partly re-built by Salvin in 1861 magnolias etc. Lovely memorial mosaic Church Lane, Gawsworth, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 9RN – 5pm; November to March 11am – following a disastrous fire. Georgian designed by Maggy Howarth. Lakeside 4pm. Chapel, herbaceous borders, lakeside walk with picnic and children's play area www.gawsworthhall.com 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. gardens, woodland walks. and children’s adventure den. Private 01260 223456 chapel in the park. Tea Room offering Wheelchair access. Wilmslow/Macclesfield Station (6 miles). light lunches, afternoon teas etc. [email protected] RODE HALL GARDENS Knutsford Station is 2 miles away, a Informal woodland garden near Set in approximately 1 acre The 10 minute taxi journey. There are no Mevagissey. Known for magnificent Japanese Garden in Cornwall combines Church Lane, , regular bus services. collections of camellias, rhododendrons the beauty of nature with an artistic Cheshire, ST7 3QP 29th March to 29th October; and oaks. Holder of NCCPG National refinement using shaping & styling www.rodehall.co.uk Thursdays to Sundays and Bank Magnolia collection. A spectacular of plants & natural elements. It is a Holiday Mondays: 1pm-5pm. Tea 01270 873237 Spring garden for both the amateur place of tranquillity with a variety Room open from 12 noon – 5.30pm. and the garden enthusiast. of plants and water features, where [email protected] visitors can enjoy of 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. station (10 miles). A beautiful Cheshire county house with nature in a peaceful, relaxing space. Gardens: Daily Monday 19th February a fine collection of English porcelain and Wheelchair access. The garden was built as a meditative – Sunday 17th June. Castle is open for extensive gardens. Stunning 2 acre walled garden, where one can calm the mind CORNWALL guided tours from Monday 19th March kitchen garden boasting a wide variety of & let go of unwanted stress through – Friday 15th June. contemplation & reflection. Located in fruit and vegetables used in the delightful BURNCOOSE NURSERIES & tea rooms. Monthly farmers market on Half price admission to gardens only. St. Mawgan Village, close to Newquay the first Saturday of the month. Groups GARDEN Airport. Detailed directions can be Wheelchair access except to top of found on the website. welcome by appointment. Gwennap, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 6BJ gardens. Newquay rail station 6 miles. Bus Kidsgrove Station. www.burncoose.co.uk THE JAPANESE GARDEN stop within a 2 minute walk. Snowdrop walks: 3rd February - 4th St. Mawgan Village, nr. Newquay, 1st March until 31st October. 7 days a 01209 860316 March: Tuesdays - Sundays, 11am - 4pm. Cornwall, TR8 4ET week, 10am – 6pm. Last entrance to Summer: 4th April - 26th September: [email protected] www.japanesegarden.co.uk the garden at 5pm. Wednesdays & Bank Holiday Mondays, 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 7 11am-5pm, House: 12-4pm. The 30 acre woodland gardens were 01637 860116 but offer does not extend to special 2 adult tickets for the price of 1, created at the turn of the century and events. excludes special events i.e. Not valid sit alongside the well known nurseries. [email protected] About 90% wheelchair friendly during Snowdrop Walks (3rd February Situated directly on A393 Redruth to (gravel paths). - 4th March) or Bluebell Walks (28th Falmouth Road, between Lanner and April – 7th May) Ponsanooth. Redruth Station (4 miles). Buses from Burncoose Nurseries & Gardens Limited wheelchair access. Redruth or Falmouth. THE TABLEY HOUSE COLLECTION Monday - Saturday; 8.30am - 5pm; Sundays; 11am - 5pm. The nursery Tabley House, Tabley Lane, Knutsford, is free all year. The garden is free Cheshire, WA16 0HB most times with the discounted rate www.tableyhouse.co.uk available otherwise. 01565 750151 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. [email protected] Wheelchair access. Tabley House houses one of the finest CAERHAYS CASTLE & GARDEN collections of paintings by 18th and 19th Caerhays, Gorran, St Austell, century British artists and furniture Cornwall, PL26 6LY makers including Turner, Lawrence, Gillow and Chippendale. The tea room www.caerhays.co.uk and 17th Century chapel have stunning 01872 501310 stained glass. Located just 2 minutes from Junction 19 of the M6. [email protected] Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

KEN CARO GARDENS PENCARROW HOUSE & GARDENS House, cafe, shop - open from 25th A magnificent Elizabethan mansion set March to 27th September, Sundays above the historic port of Padstow. Bicton, Pensilva, , Cornwall, Washaway, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL30 3AG to Thursdays (House, Shop and Cafe Still owned by the Prideaux family PL14 5RF closed on Fridays and Saturdays). who built it. Now an international www.pencarrow.co.uk 01579 362446 Guided tours of the house start at film location, the house contains a 11.15 and are run every 45 minutes, Planting started in 1970 with new 01208 841369 cornucopia of Cornish history and is of the last tour at 3.00pm. Cafe opens extension completed spring 2000. All interest to all ages. Set in 40 acres of [email protected] from 10.30am - 5.00pm. Shop opens year round colour; panoramic views. landscape gardens, visitors can enjoy from 10am - 5.00pm. Gardens open Plantsman's garden with water lily pond Owned, loved and lived in by the family. a light lunch or cream tea overlooking from 1st March to 31st October, daily and a good collection of herbaceous Georgian house and Grade II* listed the ancient . 10.00am - 5.30pm. plants. The meadow, woodland walk gardens. Superb collection of portraits, 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Offer Bodmin Parkway Station. and garden are dog friendly (on a lead). furniture and porcelain. Marked walks does not apply to special events. Easter Sunday 1st April to Thursday Tea & coffee is available. Just off main through 50 acres of beautiful formal 26th October. House Tours 1.30pm A390 road between and and woodland gardens, Victorian Partial wheelchair access. to 4.00pm 1st April to 4th October. Liskeard, follow brown tourist signs. rockery, Italian garden, 700 different (House closed from 5th April to varieties of rhododendrons, lake, Iron PENJERRICK Liskeard Station. 6th May). Grounds & The Terrace Age hill fort and icehouse. 4 miles Budock, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 5ED 10.30am – 5.00pm. 25th March - 9th September. Daily; North West of Bodmin, signed off the 10am - 5pm. A389 and B3266 at Washaway. www.penjerrickgarden.co.uk Half price admission but not during special events. Half price admission. Bodmin Parkway Station. Corlink Bus 01872 870105 request service. Wheelchair access to ground floor. 8 Partial wheelchair access. [email protected] 15 acre Spring flowering valley garden ROSELAND HOUSE Ken Caro with giant ferns, rhododendrons, Hill, Chacewater, , Gardens bamboos, camellias, magnolias & Cornwall, TR4 8QB magnificent trees. Lush jungle garden with ponds across a wooden bridge. 3 www.roselandhouse.co.uk miles South West of Falmouth between 01872 560451 Budock & Mawnan Smith. Best to wear [email protected] gumboots. Dogs on leads welcome. One acre garden subdivided by walls & Falmouth Station (3 miles). trellises with climbers, unusual mixed 1st March - 30th September; Wednesday, borders, conservatory & greenhouse. Friday & Sunday; 1.30pm - 4.30pm. National collection of clematis viticella 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Not and lapageria rosea. Teas, plant sales. on Sundays or charity days. Dogs on leads welcome. 4 miles West of Truro in Chacewater at Truro end of No disabled access. main street. PRIDEAUX PLACE Truro Station. Buses: National Express, T1, T2, 47. Padstow, Cornwall, PL28 8RP 4th April to 20th September: Tuesday and Wednesday, 1pm to 5pm. www.prideauxplace.co.uk Half price admission. 01841 532411 [email protected] Partial wheelchair access. CUMBRIA 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. The Cavendish Family offer a warm Does not apply to events. welcome to this best-loved stately Holker Hall & Gardens ASKHAM HALL GARDENS Limited wheelchair access. home. Also explore 25 acres of gardens that merge into rolling parkland, and Askham Hall, Askham, Penrith, DALEMAIN MANSION AND make the most of the Gift Shop, Food Cumbria, CA10 2PF HISTORIC GARDENS Hall, Ilex Brasserie & Courtyard Cafe. www.askhamhall.co.uk Dalemain, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0HB Cark-in-Cartmel (1 mile). No buses. Just 20 min from M6, J36. 01931 712350 www.dalemain.com 23rd March - 28th October, Wednesday [email protected] 01768 486450 to Sunday. Gardens open 10.30am – 5.00pm, Hall open 11.00am – 4.00pm. Take a stroll through our beautiful [email protected] 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 gardens with views of the river Lowther, Home to the Hasell family since for the combined Hall & Garden visit our animals and enjoy something 1679 and home of the International ticket only. Not valid for events, see delicious in our Kitchen Garden Cafe. Marmalade Festival, Dalemain Mansion website for details. 10 mins drive from Penrith, junction boasts a fine mixture of Medieval, Good wheelchair access in gardens. 40 of the M6 Tudor and early . Bus to Penrtih in Askham Village. The award-winning gardens encompass HUTTON-IN-THE-FOREST Penrith train station 10 mins drive in 5 acres of rich plantings with unusual a taxi or by buis combinations of flowers and shrubs. Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 9TH Friday and Sunday 11am - 4pm from Facilities include the Mediaeval tea www.hutton-in-the-forest.co.uk 3rd March, everyday except Saturdays room, Dacre Walk, a museum, a gift 01768 484449 9 10-5 from the Easter Hoildays shop and plant sales. Free parking. 2 for 1 adult entry, excludes special On A592, Penrith to Ullswater, 3 miles [email protected] events (Under 12 go free) from the M6 J40. Historic house and gardens, based on Partial disabled access Penrith Station (4 miles). medieval pele tower with substantial 17th-19th century additions. Beautiful March - October: Sunday - Thursday. BRANTWOOD walled garden, topiary and a woodland Tearoom, Shop & Gardens 10am walk. Tearoom when house open. 6 Coniston, Cumbria, LA21 8AD - 4.30pm. House open 10.30am miles North West of Penrith on B5305 - 3.30pm. Winter opening - see www.brantwood.org.uk towards Wigton; 2.5 miles from M6, J41. website for details. 015394 41396 2 tickets for the price of 1. Not valid Penrith Station (6 miles). Nowhere on earth have I seen a spot on special event days (please see of more perfect and enjoyable beauty [email protected] Garden: 29th March – 31st October, website for full details). 10am - 5pm. Daily except Saturdays. wrote Thomas Arnold. Visitors to William The former home of eminent Victorian, Wheelchair access to ground floor 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Not Wordsworth's 'most beloved' home John Ruskin, is a treasure house of art and and larger part of the garden only. to be used during events. (1813-1850) can share this enjoyment memorabilia. Explore Brantwood's estate (Partial access). Electric scooter as they wander through the house and and gardens with spectacular views and available and can be prebooked. Partial wheelchair access. extensive gardens landscaped by the poet, with its magnificent views of Lake ancient woodlands. Off B5285 signposted HOLKER HALL & GARDENS RYDAL MOUNT & GARDENS from Hawkshead and Coniston. Free Windermere and Rydal Water. parking. Restaurant and shop. Cark in Cartmel, Grange-over-sands, Rydal, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9LU Windermere Station (9 miles). Buses Cumbria, LA11 7PL Windermere, 12 miles, 505 bus www.rydalmount.co.uk 555, 559. service. www.holker.co.uk Open daily from 3rd March to 31st Mid March - End November; daily; 015395 58328 01931 712350 October, from 9.30am to 5.00pm. 10.30am - 5pm. December- mid March; November, December & February open Wednesday - Sunday; 10.30am - 4pm. 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Bakewell Town Bus Service Only. 01246 432310 25th March – 5th November. Daily [email protected] 11.00am - 4.00pm (Last entry 3.30pm). Renishaw Hall is surrounded by 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 but classical Italianate gardens, woodland does not extend to special events. and wider park, which were designed Limited wheelchair access - portable by Sir . Renishaw Hall ramps, only stairs to upper floor and and Gardens have belonged to the uneven floors. Disabled toilet. Sitwell family for almost 400 years. Cafe, museum and shop are available The Estate Office, Bakewell, in the stable courtyard. Derbyshire, DE45 1LA 8 miles from Chesterfield station. www.haddonhall.co.uk Gardens open Wednesday to Sunday 01629 812855 and Bank Holiday Mondays from 28th March to 30th September, 10.30am [email protected] till 4.30pm (last admission 3.30pm). Fortified Medieval and Tudor Manor Friday to Sunday from 5th October to Renishaw Hall and Gardens House. Untouched by time with 25th November, 10.30am till 4pm (last beautiful terraced gardens. Restaurant admission 3pm). The Hall is accessed and gift shop. 1 mile south of Bakewell by guided tour only (not included in 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. on A6. Follow brown tourist signs. discount scheme) on Fridays at 1.00pm 10 Does not apply with special events. Children free. Matlock Station, 6 miles and and 2.30pm and weekends in August. Limited wheelchair access. Partial access Chesterfield Station, 12 miles. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 for the Regular bus route from Bakewell, gardens only. WINDERWATH GARDENS DERBYSHIRE Derby, Nottingham and Manchester. Wheelchair route around gardens. Temple Sowerby, Penrith, 24th March to 30th September: Cumbria, CA10 2AG BAKEWELL OLD HOUSE MUSEUM Daily, excluding 19th and 20th May. DEVON www.winderwathgardens.co.uk Cunningham Place, Off North Church October: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Street, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1DD Monday plus daily between October BURROW FARM GARDENS 01768 88250 www.oldhousemuseum.org.uk half term. 10.30am – 4pm (last Old Taunton Road, Dalwood, , admission 3pm). November: Friday [email protected] Devon, EX13 7ET 01629 813642 16th, Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th Garden originally laid out at the beginning [email protected] November – Artisan Market 10am to www.burrowfarmgardens.co.uk of the 20th century, with mature trees 4pm (last admission 3pm). Christmas: dating from this time including the Bakewells' hidden gem the Old House 1st -19th December, from 10.30am – 01404 831285 Museum is tucked away behind Wellingtonia, cut leaf beech and the 4pm (last admission 3pm). [email protected] Bakewell Church. Explore the Tudor cedar. Rockeries, herbaceous borders 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. and a large collection of Alpine and beamed rooms, wide open fireplace Beautifully landscaped 13 acre garden Himalayan plants. Plants for sale are and view over 9,000 donated items No wheelchair access. Please with magnificent views. Woodland grown on the premises. 4 miles from in the museums collection. Fun trails telephone in advance. Accessibility garden in Roman claypit. Ponds and Penrith, off J40 of the M6 onto A66 for children, dressing up and hands on Statement Online. sweeping lawns with fine trees. Rill towards Temple Sowerby. Sorry No Dogs. activities. A family treasure trove, with RENISHAW HALL AND GARDENS garden with luxuriant colour themed something for everyone. Access is from planting. A plantsman's delight. Nursery & Penrith Station: 5 miles North Church Street or Church Lane. Renishaw Park, Nr Eckington, refreshments, craft shop. A35 Axminster/ Derbyshire, S21 3WB 1st March - 31st October. Monday-Friday, The museum is a short 10 minute walk Honiton turn north at Taunton crossroads 10am-4pm, Saturday, 10am-2pm. from Bakewell Town Centre. www.renishaw-hall.co.uk and follow brown tourist signs. Axminster Station. Woodland Gardens with follies One half price child or adult ticket Garden and Tea Room open Bank and temples set in 18th century with one full paying adult. Holiday Mondays, Wednesday and Daily. 30th March - 31st October, parkland. Summer Millennium Garden, House not suitable for the disabled as Thursday from Easter to end of 10am - 6pm. herbaceous borders. Vistas, grass it has a lot of stairs. September. House tours on Bank 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. terraces, statues and temples leading FURSDON HOUSE, GARDENS AND Holiday Mondays, Wednesdays and down to the river. Newly restored TEA ROOM Thursdays in June, July and August. Partial wheelchair access. Holwell Temple. Leave A361 (NDLR) at 2pm - 5pm. Tours at 2.30 and Fursdon House, Cadbury, Exeter, Devon, roundabout signed South Molton onto 3.30pm. See website for additional CADHAY HOUSE EX5 5JS B3226. Take second turning right to special open days. Cadhay, Ottery St. Mary, Filleigh. Shortly after passing through www.fursdon.co.uk 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Devon, EX11 1QT Stags Head go through drive gates 01392 860860 Offer not valid on NGS charity days. following signs to car park. www.cadhay.org.uk See website for details. Barnstaple Railway Station 8 miles, [email protected] 01404 813511 Bus service from Barnstaple and Limited wheelchair access. South Molton. Elegant Jacobean and Regency interior [email protected] combined with earlier features. April - October: 11am-5pm. HARTLAND ABBEY & GARDENS Built in 1550, Cadhay retains the November - March: 11am-4pm. Open Home of the Fursdon family for more Great Hall of an earlier house with a daily except for Saturdays. than 750 years. Local history, family Hartland, Bideford, Devon, EX39 6DT fine timber roof. An Elizabethan long 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. memorabilia, costumes, furniture and gallery was added to form a unique Not valid on special event days (see paintings on informal tour. Fantastic www.hartlandabbey.com courtyard with statues of sovereigns website for details). views, grounds and lovely informal and walled gardens. Delicious home baking either side. Understated, gracious and Restricted access for visitors in 01237 441496/234 11 beautiful gardens. House by guided wheelchairs or those with limited in the Coach Hall. tour. Tearoom. mobility due to the layout of the Exeter Station (9 miles), no bus services. [email protected] From the east, exit the A30 at the gardens. Iron Bridge exit just after Honiton. CHAMBERCOMBE MANOR Follow the signs for Fairmile and Chambercombe Lane, Ilfracombe, Hartland Abbey & Gardens then Cadhay. From the west - Exit Devon, EX34 9RJ A30 at the Pattesons Cross exit and www.chambercombemanor.co.uk follow the signs as above. May - September open Fridays; 2pm - 01271 862624 5pm (last tour 4pm). Also late Spring [email protected] and August Bank Holidays, Saturday, Sunday & Mondays. Chambercombe Manor is a most unique and intriguing property, steeped in Half price admission to gardens. history and legend, mentioned in the . It was owned by the Limited wheelchair access. Champernon family from around 1162. In the early 16th century it became CASTLE HILL GARDENS the property of Henry Duke of Suffolk, Castle Hill, Filleigh, Barnstaple, Devon, father of the ill fated Lady Jane Grey. EX32 0RQ Bus stop approx. 3/4 mile away www.castlehilldevon.co.uk Open Friday 30th March to Friday 26th 01598 760336 October. Closed on Saturdays. Tours and opening times vary so please check [email protected] website or call for more information. 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Award-winning family home; Half price admission on full adult Ivybridge (1.5m). POWDERHAM CASTLE former monastery given by Henry tickets. Applies only to combined Spring: 25th March to 10th June. VIII to present owner's ancestors. House and Garden ticket. Excludes Kenton, Exeter, Devon, EX6 8JQ Sunday, Wednesday and Bank Wonderful architecture, interiors, Special Events. Holidays, 11am - 5pm. Autumn: 7th www.powderham.co.uk paintings, furniture, porcelain, family Partial wheelchair access. October to 12th November. Sunday & memorabilia. Woodland gardens lead Wednesday, 11am - 5pm . 01626 890243 to 18th century walled gardens, bog LUKESLAND GARDENS 2 adult tickets for the price of 1, not garden by Jekyll, beach and Blackpool [email protected] including special events. Mill, location for ‘Sense and Sensibility’ Harford Road, Ivybridge, Devon, PL21 0JF Partial wheelchair access. Disabled A magnificent 600 year old castle and and ‘The Night Manager’. Wildflowers. www.lukesland.co.uk Fascinating exhibitions including toilet facilities. home to the Earl and Countess of Devon. Set in a fabulous deer park on 'Filming on the Hartland Abbey Estate 01752 691749 MARWOOD HILL GARDEN since 1934' and ‘William Stukeley – the edge of the Exe estuary just outside Saviour of Stonehenge’. Delicious light [email protected] Marwood, Nr. Barnstaple, Exeter. Fascinating guided tours, acres of grounds to explore, amazing views, lunches & cream teas. Off A39 on 24 acres of flowering shrubs, wild North Devon, EX31 4EA treasure trails and special events. A B3248 between Hartland and Hartland flowers and rare trees with Pinetum in www.marwoodhillgarden.co.uk magical day out for everyone. Quay. See website for events. Dartmoor National Park. Ponds, pools Barnstaple Station approx. 20 miles. and waterfalls. Superb Spring and 01931 712350 Starcross Station less than 2 miles. Bus to village. Autumn colour. Home-made teas. Dogs No. 2/2A bus stops at top of drive. [email protected] Daffodil Sunday 18th March; 25th March welcome on lead. Children's Trail. 10 1st April to the end of October. – 30th September: Sundays-Thursdays miles East of . Turn off A38 at Marwood Hill is a magical and very special 11am-4.30pm 12 plus Bank Holidays. 11.00am-5pm. House Ivybridge. 1.5 miles north on Harford 20 acre private garden with three lakes, 20% off a full priced ticket, offer 2pm-5pm (last entry to house 4pm). Road. set in a valley tucked away in North does not extend to themed weeks or Devon only 4 miles from Barnstaple. special events. The view across the valley from the Marwood Hill Garden Garden Tea Room is spectacular, the food Limited wheelchair access. served is delicious, and the Plant Sales & Nursery area is sure to tempt you with TIVERTON CASTLE the variety of unusual plants. Special group rates and menus available. Dogs Park Hill, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6RP welcome. Coach & Car Parking. www.tivertoncastle.com No regular bus service. Barnstaple Train Station. 01884 253200 Open daily 11th March to 30th September. Gardens open 10am – [email protected] 5pm. Plant sales 11am – 4.30pm. Historic castle originally built 1106, The Garden Tea Room open 10am altered down the ages. Once home of – 4.30pm. Contact property for medieval Earls of Devon and Princess October and special winter opening Katherine Plantagenet. Besieged and times and events. taken by Fairfax in 1645 it now houses 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 a fine Civil War Armoury- try some on! Interesting furniture and pictures. Yes but limited as the garden is set in a Beautiful garden in romantic ruins. valley. Ramped access to Plant Centre Comfortable holiday accommodation. and Garden Tea Room. Please contact property for more information. 7 miles from Tiverton Parkway Station. Forde Abbey & Gardens Easter Sunday to end October; Daily. Winter: 10am-4pm (last entry Sundays, Thursdays & Bank Holiday 3pm)*, Summer: 10am-6pm (last Mondays. 2.30pm - 5.30pm (Last entry 5pm). *Check website for admission 5pm). details of Christmas opening hours. Half price admission. £2 off per person for up to 4 people per membership card (up to £8 off Wheelchair access to garden and entry). Cannot be used with family ground floor. tickets or any other offer. Excludes WILDWOOD ESCOT special event days. Escot Park, Ottery St. Mary, Disabled access. Devon, EX11 1LU www.wildwoodescot.org DORSET 01404 822188 ATHELHAMPTON HOUSE AND GARDENS [email protected] Athelhampton, Dorchester, Wildwood Escot is a perfect family day Dorset, DT2 7LG out with the best of British wildlife and wild spaces. Lose yourself in the www.athelhampton.co.uk As featured in Country Life and The fantastic maze, then find yourself on a 01305 848363 01460 221290 woodland trail with our stunning wolves, Dorset Magazine. A fine Tudor/Georgian lynx, wildcat and more. Fly back in [email protected] manor house with Victorian stables [email protected] 13 time at our Saxon village and test your and 12th century church nearby, 6 Enjoy 30 acres of award winning courage on the terrifying tree-top-drop! Built around an unmodified Tudor acre garden and 1 acre organic walled gardens with vivid herbaceous borders, Just off the A30 between Honiton and Hall, with a fine collection of English garden. Teas on some Wednesdays in bog garden, arboretum and kitchen Exeter. furniture from Jacobean to late April & October only. In Cranborne Victorian periods. The award winning garden, viewed against the spectacular Feniton train station (followed by Chase between Cranborne and architectural gardens feature the 12th century Abbey and the Centenary taxi/bike ride). Verwood, off the B3081. famous pyramid shaped yew trees and Salisbury & Bournemouth Stations Fountain – England’s highest powered diverse water features, plus a boarded (17 miles). No public transport into fountain. Tearoom, plant centre, gift walk along the River Piddle. Edmondsham village. shop, pottery showroom. 4 miles Lukesland Gardens South East of Chard, off A30 and A358; Dorchester Station (4 miles). Gardens: April - October inclusive, Wednesdays & Sundays 2.00-5.00pm. signposted. March - October: Sunday -Thursday House & Gardens - Wednesdays only, Crewkerne Station (7 miles). ,10.00am -5pm. November - February: April & October most Wednesdays Sundays only, 10.30am - dusk. 2.00-5.00pm (please check with Gardens open daily, 10am to 5.30pm (last tickets 4.30pm). House open 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. owner). Bank Holiday Mondays: 2-5.00pm. 27th March to 31st October; Tuesday- Wheelchair access limited. Coach Friday, Sunday and Bank Holiday house accessible. Please phone for 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Monday, 12 noon to 4pm (last entry). information. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 to Wheelchair access. Gardens only or half-price for a single EDMONDSHAM HOUSE & GARDEN FORDE ABBEY AND GARDENS adult to Gardens only. Not valid for Edmondsham, Wimborne, special events e.g. Summer Fair. See Dorset, BH21 5RE Forde Abbey, Chard, Dorset, TA20 4LU website for details. www.aboutbritain.com/ Wheelchair access to grounds and edmondshamhouse.htm www.fordeabbey.co.uk Great Hall. Battery car available. Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

Wheelchair access to garden but not Daily 10am – 5pm. Closed only 25th & house. 26th December & 1st January. WOLFETON HOUSE 10% Discount Wolfeton, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 9QN Wheelchair access to the museum 01305 263500 including shop, Café Bowes and disabled toilet. [email protected] CROOK HALL & GARDENS Grade I* medieval & Elizabethan house. Magnificent carved oak panelling, splendid Sidegate, Durham, DH1 5SZ plaster ceilings, grand fireplaces, unique stone great stairs and 17th century www.crookhallgardens.co.uk pictures and furniture. 1.5 miles from 0191 3848028 Dorchester on A37 towards Yeovil. [email protected] Dorchester Station. June to end of September; Monday, Crook Hall is one of the oldest inhabited Wednesday, Thursday; 2pm - 5pm. houses in Durham city. The 13th 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. century Grade I listed Medieval hall Crook Hall & Gardens Does not include groups. is surrounded by a series of romantic garden rooms. Durham's bustling 14 Wheelchair access to ground floor. market place, a short walk away, leads MAPPERTON HOUSE AND GARDENS SERLES HOUSE & GARDEN DURHAM visitors to describe the gardens as a Mapperton, Beaminster, Dorset, DT8 3NR 47 Victoria Road, Wimborne, 'peaceful oasis'. A fact that possibly Dorset, BH21 1EN THE BOWES MUSEUM led Wordsworth and Ruskin to visit for www.mapperton.com 01202 880430 quiet contemplation. Newgate, Barnard Castle, 01308 862645 Described by Alan Titchmarsh as one County Durham, DL12 8NP 1/2 mile from Durham City rail and of the 10 best private gardens in Great bus station. [email protected] www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk Britain, this garden is for people of Sunday to Wednesday. 11am - 5pm. Terraced valley gardens surround a all ages. The plantings fit in with over 01833 690606 Tudor/Jacobean manor house, stables 60 relics rescued from oblivion by Ian 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. & dovecote, croquet lawn, Italianate Willis. The Anglo-Indian conservatory, [email protected] Offer does not apply to special or plant-pot man, tree-house and cannons bookable events. formal garden with fountains, orangery, This magnificent French style château from the Solent are highlights of this grottoes, and a 17th century summer houses some of the best collections of Limited wheelchair access. remarkable experience. Location: house. Off A3066 Crewkerne or A356 fine and decorative arts in the UK. With Centre of Wimborne. On B3082 West of from Dorchester, take B3163. a varied exhibition programme, romantic HEAD OF STEAM DARLINGTON town, very near hospital, Westfield car history, stunning galleries, beautiful RAILWAY MUSEUM Crewkerne Station (8 miles). park 300yds. Off-road parking close by. gardens, parkland and children's play Gardens: 1st March to 31st October, North Road Station, Darlington, DL3 6ST Station at Poole, 1/4 mile from town area, family activities, and acclaimed Sunday to Thursday. 11.00am to centre bus stops. Café Bowes and Shop there are plenty of 5.00pm www.head-of-steam.co.uk 19th, 22nd and 29th of July; 2nd, 5th, memories to be made. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 to 19th, 26th, 27th and 30th of August Gardens Only on Wednesdays and and 1st, 2nd and 9th of September. Darlington Station is 17 miles away. 01325 405060 Thursdays only. Excludes special events. All 2pm-5pm. Buses 75 and 76 from Darlington; Buses 8 and 85 from ; [email protected] Wheelchair access to upper levels. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Bus 79 from Richmond. Head of Steam Museum offers a LAYER MARNEY TOWER Cam & Dursley Station (4 miles). Very Elizabethan Manor House containing limited bus service. furniture, pictures & relics of unique experience to visitors through Layer Marney, Colchester, Essex, CO5 9US interactive displays and audio visual Berkeley Castle: 25th March - 31st Cromwellian period, amid the tranquil equipment, telling the story of the www.layermarneytower.co.uk October, Sunday - Wednesday: 11am - Cotswolds, with Family Chapel close history of Darlington and the impact of 01206 330784 5pm. Butterfly House: 1st May - 30th by. Spacious gardens with unspoilt September, Sunday - Wednesday: railways. The museum is about 1 mile [email protected] views. Tours conducted by owner or from the town centre on the A167 and 11am - 5pm. Please check website his family. Featured in BBC2's "Curious is clearly signposted. Stunning Tudor gatehouse, so impressive as on rare occasions we may need to House Guest" and as Candleford Manor that Henry VIII came to stay before they deviate from these opening times. in the costume drama 'Larkrise to North Road Station 2 minutes away. finished building it. Shop, tearoom, 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Candleford'. Also seen in Bonekickers, Regular buses from town centre. gardens, country walks. Standing within Excludes special event days. Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Channel April to October: Tuesday to Sunday the Essex landscape it commands views Wheelchair Access limited (due to 4's period drama 'New Worlds'. Now 10am – 4pm. October to March: to the River Blackwater and beyond. steps). featuring as 'Trenwith' House, in Wednesday to Sunday 11am- 3.30pm Signed off Colchester Maldon Road. Poldark. A hidden gem of the Cotswolds. April open days have extra opening for 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Not CHAVENAGE HOUSE Kemble (9 miles) or Stroud (7 miles) bottle feeding lambs – see website for to be used in conjunction with any Stations. Bus Tetbury 2 miles. more details and other events. Chavenage, Tetbury, other offer or on event days. Gloucestershire, GL8 8XP May - September; Thursdays & Witham station 7 miles away. Sundays; 2pm-5pm, last admission Wheelchair access. www.chavenage.com 4pm. Open 25th March – 30th September Half price admission. Excluding Bank as follows; March to June: Sunday & ESSEX 01666 502329 Holidays Wednesday, 12 noon – 5.00 pm. July INGATESTONE HALL & August: Sunday to Thursday, 12 [email protected] Wheelchair access downstairs only. 15 noon – 5.00 pm. September: Sunday Hall Lane, Ingatestone, Essex, CM4 9NR & Wednesday, 12 noon – 5.00 pm. www.ingatestonehall.com 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 excluding special events. Layer Marney Tower 01277 353010 Wheelchair access everywhere but Tower. [email protected] GLOUCESTERSHIRE 16th century mansion built by Sir William Petre, Secretary of State to 4 BERKELEY CASTLE Tudor monarchs, and occupied by his Berkeley, Gloucestershire, GL13 9BQ descendants. The house retains many original features including priests' www.berkeley-castle.com hiding places. Half a mile from London 01453 810303 end of Ingatestone High Street via [email protected] Station Lane. In 864 years the Berkeley family have Ingatestone Station (0.5 mile). transformed a forbidding fortress into a 1st April to 30th September: comfortable family home. Fine furniture, Wednesday, Saturday & Bank Holiday silver, paintings and tapestries, film location Mondays, 12 noon - 5 p.m. for BBC’s Wolf Hall & Poldark. Terraced 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Not gardens and rare plants. Tropical butterfly available for special events. house (May - September). Yurt Restaurant. Picnic area. Location; Berkeley, just off the Partial wheelchair access. 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LYDNEY PARK SPRING GARDENS & 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 Winchcombe ‘Abbey Terrace’ bus Cotswold Elizabethan manor house in ROMAN TEMPLE SITE excluding special events. stop (Marchants service) 0.5 mile. historical setting adjoining Norman Monday 5th March – Sunday 21st church, listed stable-block and barn, Lydney Park Estate, Lydney, No wheelchair access. December. Daily; 10am until 5pm/ Gloucestershire, GL15 6BU with family possessions including until 4pm from 29th October. good collections of glass, ceramics www.lydneyparkestate.co.uk SUDELEY CASTLE AND GARDENS Half price admission. and minerals. Hand printed textiles. 4 01594 842844 Winchcombe, Nr Cheltenham, miles East of Cheltenham off A40. Gloucestershire, GL54 5JD Wheelchair access limited (due to steps). Cheltenham Station (4 miles). [email protected] www.sudeleycastle.co.uk THREE CHOIRS VINEYARDS 31st March - 15th April and 11th-27th Magnificent woodland garden, a place August. Daily 2pm - 5pm. of tranquil natural beauty. Extensive 01242 604244 Newent, Gloucestershire, GL18 1LS ruins of a Roman Camp including a www.three-choirs-vineyards.co.uk Half price admission. Roman Temple. Spring flowering shrubs [email protected] 01531 890223 Limited wheelchair access. and trees. Formal garden and views. Museums, including the New Zealand Sudeley's walls tell the history of the [email protected] WOODCHESTER MANSION Museum, and tearooms. Dogs welcome bloody dynastic power struggles from on leads. Located between Chepstow & which the modern English nation has England's leading and most awarded Woodchester Mansion Trust, Gloucester on the A48. emerged. The route through the castle single estate vineyard producing award Woodchester Park, Nympsfield, gives you a sense of life through the winning white, sparkling, rose and red Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, GL10 3TS Lydney Station (1.5 miles). centuries, right through to the present wines. Wine tasting tours. Lunches and www.woodchestermansion.org.uk Easter Sunday 1st April to Sunday day as a family home. Located 8 miles dinners served in our brasserie with 16 10th June. Sundays, Wednesday and NE of Cheltenham on B4632 or 10 miles picturesque views. Cellar tasting 01453 861541 Bank Holiday Mondays. 10am - 5pm. from J9 of M5. room open for tastings and wine sales. [email protected] Bed and breakfast accommodation. See website for more information. Hidden in a wooded valley near Stroud is one of the most intriguing houses in Sudeley Castle & Gardens Ledbury train station 8 miles. Limited the country. Woodchester Mansion was bus service. started in the mid-1850s, but abandoned Wine Tasting Experience available incomplete. It offers a unique insight Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00am-4.00pm. into traditional building techniques. Cellar Door open daily 9am-5pm. Woodchester Mansion Trust's repair Brasserie open Tuesday to Sunday only programme includes courses in stone for lunch and dinner, booking advised. masonry and building conservation. Guest bedrooms available 6 days a week. The Mansion is available to hire for 2 Wine Tasting Experience tickets any occasion including Private Parties, for the price of 1. Not to be used in Paranormal Investigations and much conjunction with any other offers. more. Private tours for small groups Wheelchair access everywhere available any day. except the vineyard walk. Stroud train station 5 miles. Ebley 35 WHITTINGTON COURT from Stroud (bus). Whittington, Cheltenham, 30th March to 28th October. Friday Gloucestershire, GL54 4HF – Sunday, 11am – 5pm. Also open on www.whittingtoncourt.co.uk Bank Holidays. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. 01242 820556 Excludes special event days. Limited wheelchair access to the

© Ryan Dearnaley © Ryan [email protected] ground floor only. King John’s House & Heritage Centre HAMPSHIRE Guided tours and teas - May to September, Sundays, Bank Holiday AVINGTON PARK Mondays and Mondays in August 2.30pm – 5.30pm. Avington, Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 1DB 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Partial wheelchair access (ground www.avingtonpark.co.uk floor only) 01962 779260 GILBERT WHITE & THE OATES COLLECTIONS [email protected] High Street, Selborne, Hampshire, GU34 3JH A beautiful Palladian family home in www.gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk secluded parkland by the river Itchen. Features include splendid gilded and 01420 511275 painted walls and ceilings, a pair of charming Victorian conservatories, [email protected] and delightful Georgian church in Discover three stories about explorers the grounds. Three statues above of the Natural World. The home of the classical of the facade Gilbert White, 18th century naturalist, look out across lawns to the recently set in 25 acres of parkland and gardens. restored lake. Private guided tours Captain Oates and his journey to the 17 and refreshments can be arranged South Pole and his Uncle, Frank Oates, throughout the year. Victorian explorer. Plant sales, free entry to Tea Parlour and shop. Winchester Station (5 miles). Jane Austen’s House Museum in KING JOHN'S HOUSE & Alton or Liss Stations. Buses from Chawton, Hampshire, is the house Petersfield and Alton. HERITAGE CENTRE where Jane Austen lived and wrote. 1st Jan-Feb half-term: Fri-Sun It is the most treasured Austen site Church Street, Romsey, Jane Austen’s House Museum 10.30am-4.30pm, Feb half-term-31st in the world. It was here that Jane’s Hampshire, SO51 8BT Mar: Tue-Sun 10.30am-4.30pm, 1st genius flourished and where she wrote, Apr-31st Oct: Tue-Sun 10.30am-5pm. www.kingjohnshouse.org.uk revised and had published all her 1st Nov-24th Dec: Tue-Sun 10.30am- major works. Find us just off the A31 4.30pm. July & August: Mon-Sun 01794 512200 near Alton. 10.30am-5pm. Alton Station is 2 miles away and the [email protected] Half price admission. 64 bus goes between Winchester and Alton. Discover a slice of Romsey's hidden Wheelchair access to ground floor & history at King John's House, an parts of garden. February - May: 10.30am - 4.30pm. June - August: 10am - 5pm. Sept - intriguing medival building with Tudor JANE AUSTEN'S HOUSE MUSEUM Dec: 10.30am - 4.30pm. Please check extension and Victorian Museum set the website for details. in an idyllic period-style garden. Miss Chawton, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1SD 2 Adult tickets for the price of 1. Moody's Tudor Tea Room welcomes visitors with delicious homemade www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk Does Not extend to special events. Group visits of 15 or more can be lunches, cakes and traditional cream 01420 83262 booked - £7.50 per person. teas. Find us hidden between Romsey Very good at ground level but steep Visitor Information Centre and the Post

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Totton rail station is approx 55 minute Set in 1800 acres of glorious parkland. walk but please note there are no Magnificent state rooms, authentic footpaths along Deerleap Lane. Taxi Servants' Quarters. Victorian walled rank at station. Ashurst rail station garden, yew maze and tearoom. (approx 2 miles): trains from London Garden centre, ancient chapel, and Poole arrive at 40 mins past the arboretum and Stansted light railway. hour in both directions. On arrival at On the Hampshire/ Ashurst there are a number of easy border. Available for weddings and ways to reach us. Taxi - for an easy private hire. life from Ashurst a taxi costs approx £7 to £8. Book a taxi on 023 8029 3399 Taxis from Havant Station (4 miles or contact us for more assistance. By away). 2 mile forest walk from bus: the Bluestar 6 bus runs between Rowlands Castle station. Southampton. Easter to end September: Sunday - Spring/Summer: 10.00am - 5.30pm. Wednesday. 1pm – 5pm (last entry Autumn/Winter: 10.00am - 4.30pm 4pm) or dusk. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Child Free entry ( age 3 to 16) with Excludes special events. One adult paying the standard entry price as advertised on our web site Disabled access. 18 on the day, note not valid bank Holidays or Bank Holiday weekends, cannot be used with any other offer. Valid up to 31 December 2018. One VERULAMIUM MUSEUM visit per household address, and with St. Michaels Street, ST. ALBANS, Stansted Park a valid CPRE membership card. Hertfordshire, AL3 4SW We welcome wheelchair and www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/ mobility scooter users and visitors verulamium/ Romsey station, 10 minute walk. [email protected] with limited mobility. However, the Numerous buses to Romsey town woodland trails and natural forest 01727 751810 centre. Visitors to New Forest Wildlife Park environment may pose difficulties for Open All Year Excluding Christmas to can see some exciting new arrivals some visitors. Please telephone the [email protected] New Year; Monday - Saturday. 10am in 2018, including a red fox, giant park prior to your visit to discuss your - 4pm. otters, fallow deer and owls from requirements, and we’ll do our best Verulamium Museum is a fantastic the Chestnut Centre in Derbyshire. place to find out about everyday 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. to help. With bison, lynx, wolves, wallabies, Roman life. It's built on the site of STANSTED PARK one of the largest Roman settlements Limited wheelchair access. wildcats, wild boar and more, the park makes for a fun-filled family in Britain, so as well as seeing a NEW FOREST WILDLIFE PARK day out. Don’t miss the adventure Rowlands Castle, Hampshire, PO9 6DX museum packed with Roman objects, playgrounds, animal encounters, you can also explore the remains of Deerleap Lane, Nr. Ashurst, keeper talks, café and gift shop www.stanstedpark.co.uk the Roman town. A short stroll away in Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 4UH too. Follow the brown New Forest Verulamium Park, see the Hypocaust www.newforestwildlifepark.co.uk Wildlife Park attraction signs 02392 412265 and the remains of the Roman wall, from Southampton (A35) or from while across the road you can also 02380 292408 Lyndhurst. [email protected] visit the Roman Theatre. ISLE OF WIGHT Ventnor Botanic Garden boasts an Wheelchair users can gain access to impressive collection of over 30,000 the ground floor using our wheelchair DIMBOLA MUSEUM & GALLERIES rare and subtropical plants and trees. friendly route around the gardens Spread across 22 acres of gardens the but other areas are only accessible Terrace Lane, Freshwater , Isle of plantings are based on a geographical via steps. Wheelchair access to Wight, PO40 9QE regions of the world. The Garden is tea room, gift shop and art gallery. located in the unique microclimate Disable parking and toilet available. www.dimbola.co.uk of the Ventnor Undercliff which is Free entrance to registered carers. an average 5 degrees warmer than KENT 01983 756814 mainland UK. We are Britain's hottest garden! Follow the A3055 from Ventnor [email protected] BELMONT HOUSE AND GARDENS until you find us! Belmont House, Belmont Park, Throwley, Former home of Julia Margaret By Bus: Southern Vectis No.6. By Faversham, Kent, ME13 0HH Cameron, pioneering Victorian rail: the nearest railway station is photographer. Exhibition of Julia's www.belmont-house.org Verulamium Museum Shanklin. From here, visitors should work, vintage cameras and Victorian take the No.3 to Ventnor Town. 01795 890202 dressing-up room. There is also By train: St Albans is on two train a programme of contemporary and Open all year, daily. Winter opening [email protected] lines: the line to St historic photography exhibitions time: 10am-4pm (Nov-Mar). Summer An elegant 18th century house set in Albans City (Bedford/Brighton/ so there will always be something opening time: 10am-5pm (Apr-Oct). London), about a 30 minute walk beautiful parkland. Gardens include a different to enjoy. Free entry to the 2 adults tickets for the price of 1. away and the Abbey Flyer line from pinetum with grotto, a walled garden tearoom and gift shop. Offer does not extend to special 19 Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey, and a kitchen garden with Victorian ticketed events. Only one discount about 20 mins walk through the Park. Buses 7 &12, Needles Breezer (Mar- greenhouses. Its contents echo per person/family/party. No Monday to Saturday: 10am to 5.30pm Oct) & FYT Bus. ownership by the Harris family since photocopies. Please contact for (last admission at 5pm). Sunday: 2pm Closed 2nd Jan-24th Jan. Winter 1801, including mementos of careers event details. to 5.30pm (last admission at 5pm). Opening hours: 10am - 3pm, in India and Trinidad, along with an Normal hours on Bank Holidays. For Wednesday - Sunday until Easter extensive clock collection. Christmas & New Year opening, check Holidays. Then open 7 days a week Ventnor Botanic Gardens with the museum. Please note that 10am-5pm until end of September, during term-time, we often have check website for details of opening school groups visiting, so the gallery times after September can get busy during certain periods, 2 for 1 admission – excluding special but is generally quieter after about events. Please contact for event 3pm. If you have any concerns, do details. give us a ring. Wheelchair access to ground floor 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. including tea room, gift shop and WC. Stairlift to upstairs galleries. Wheelchair-accessible. Lift to reach the accessible WC. There is a sloped VENTNOR BOTANIC GARDEN path from the NCP car park to the Undercliff Drive, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, entrance, the glass are quite PO38 1UL heavy to open but staff can assist. We www.botanic.co.uk do not have an audio guide available but can offer sessions for specific 01983 855397 groups subject to availability by prior arrangement - please enquire. [email protected] Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

Faversham station approx. 6 miles. Faversham railway station 3 miles. Penshurst Station. Gardens open daily, 10am- 6pm (or Self guided walks available all 30th March to 31st October; Sunday, dusk if earlier). The house is open year. Guided walks from April until Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and for guided tours on Wednesdays October. Open daily 10am to 5pm. Bank Holidays only. 11am – 5pm (last (11am & 1pm), Weekends and BH 1 free day pass with every adult admission 4.15pm) Mondays (2.15pm & 3.15pm), April ‘Orchard Pass’ purchased. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. to September (House not included Disabled access Excludes special event days. in discount scheme). Please see Wheelchair access. website for further details. CHIDDINGSTONE CASTLE Goodnestone Park Half price admission on gardens only. GOODNESTONE PARK GARDENS Not valid on special event days. Chiddingstone, Edenbridge, Kent, TN8 7AD The Street, Goodnestone, Canterbury, Groombridge Place offers a fun day Wheelchair access for all grounds. Kent, CT3 1PL out for all the family with award www.chiddingstonecastle.org.uk winning gardens, and the Enchanted BROGDALE COLLECTION 01892 870347 www.goodnestoneparkgardens.co.uk Forest, with its giant tree swings and Brogdale Farm, Brogdale Road, [email protected] [email protected] other exciting things to discover. Faversham, Kent, ME13 8XZ In August, discover the amazing A fascinating historic house set in 35 www.brogdalecollections.org The archetypal English country garden, handcrafted Treetops Walkway, which acres of informal gardens which has visited by Jane Austen, Goodnestone is is an incredible 350m long and stands 01795 536250 Tudor origins and many interesting a haven of tranquility hidden away in at over 20m above the forest floor. [email protected] Victorian ‘upstairs downstairs’ rooms. South East Kent. Refreshments available. Experience something truly magical as It houses the amazing collections of the 20 Home of the National Fruit Collection. From A2 towards Dover, take B2046 you climb higher and higher along the late Denys Eyre Bower, a passionate Set in 150 acres, discover over 2,200 signed Aylesham & Wingham, turn right ropes into the tree canopy of the huge and gifted collector of art and artefacts varieties of apples along with pears, before Wingham, signed Goodnestone. Oak, Pine, Beech and Chestnut trees – Japanese lacquer and Samurai cherries, soft fruit, nuts & more. 10 From A257 to Sandwich turn right in which make up this ancient forest. armour, Ancient Egyptian treasures, minutes from the M2 at Junction 6. Wingham, signed to Goodnestone. Tunbridge Wells (4 miles), Metobus Buddhist objects, Stuart paintings and 209/291 service. London Charing Jacobite manuscripts. A cosy Tea Room Adisham Station (2.5 miles) Cross to Tunbridge Wells, then bus and sunny courtyard are a treat in or taxi to Groombridge. Or take the all weathers. Gift Shop. Approx. 15 Chiddingstone Castle April - September: Sundays, 12pm - Spa Valley Railway steam train from minutes from the M25 Junction 5. 4pm. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Tunbridge Wells West Station with a and Bank Holidays, 11am - 5pm. The 10-minute walk the other end. tea room is open from May to August. Daily: 10.00am - 4pm 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Not valid on charity days. 2 tickets for the price of 1. Not available to use with any other Partial wheelchair access. discount. The majority of the gardens are GROOMBRIDGE PLACE GARDENS accessible to wheelchairs as they Groombridge Place, Groombridge Hill, are mainly on one level, all paths Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells, are gravel and steps have adjoining , TN3 9QG gravel ramps. Some areas of the forest are naturally steep and not www.groombridgeplace.com accessible by all wheelchair users, 01892 861444 a map advising the best route for wheelchair users can be obtained [email protected] from the admissions office on arrival. Lullingstone Castle LULLINGSTONE CASTLE & Birchington on Sea (1/2 mile). THE WORLD GARDEN Lullingstone Park, Eynsford, Dartford, Museum & Gardens: 16th January Kent, DA4 0JA to 16th December. 10am to 5pm, closed on Mondays, except Bank www.lullingstonecastle.co.uk Holidays. Quex House: 1st April to 01322 862114 31st October. 1pm to 4pm, closed on Mondays, except Bank Holidays. [email protected] House is occasionally closed for Weddings, please check website for Lullingstone Castle dates to the 15th details. century and has remained in the same family ever since. It boasts Henry VIII 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. and Queen Anne amongst its royal Normal admission applies during visitors. The current heir Tom Hart February half term. Not valid on Dyke, after his kidnap ordeal in special event days. Colombia in 2000, has created a garden in the shape of the world, containing The Museum, ground floor of Quex some 8,000 unusual plants. House and the gardens are all accessible for wheelchair users. Eynsford Station, 3/4 mile. RESTORATION HOUSE

31st March to 28th October: Friday, © Alan Graham 21 Saturday and Sunday, plus Bank 17 - 19 Crow Lane, Rochester, Holidays. 12 - 5pm. Kent, ME1 1RF 50% off ticket price, excluding events ROMAN PAINTED HOUSE 1st April - 20th September, Tuesday (see website for more details). www.restorationhouse.co.uk - Saturday: 10am - 4.30pm. Closed Limited wheelchair access to ground New Street, Dover, Kent, CT17 9AJ Monday & Sunday. floor and grounds. 01634 848520 www.theromanpaintedhouse.co.uk 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. POWELL-COTTON MUSEUM, [email protected] QUEX HOUSE & GARDENS 01304 203279 Wheelchair access. Privately owned ancient mansion, Quex Park, Park Lane, Birchington, Kent, The Roman Painted House, the finest close to city centre. Beautiful interiors SPA VALLEY RAILWAY CT7 0BH Roman House on show in Britain, was 'run-up' for Charles II's visit. Dickens www.quexpark.co.uk discovered by Kent Archaeological West Station, Neville Terrace, Tunbridge situated Miss Havisham here. Fine Rescue Unit. 25 years of excavation Wells, Kent, TN2 5QY collection of English furniture and 01843 842168 across ancient Dover by the Unit www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk pictures. Charming interlinked walled have uncovered 50 major structures. [email protected] gardens. Restoration of late 16th The Painted House was the best 01892 537715 century Italian water garden nearly Powell-Cotton Museum contains preserved and is now a major tourist complete for 2018 [email protected] a taxidermy collection of African attraction. Many display panels, finds wildlife, ethnographical exhibits, Rochester Station (1/3 mile). and commentaries with unique wall A wonderful ride through the High weaponry, porcelain and fine furniture. 31st May to 28th September; murals and underfloor hypocausts. countryside! Steam and Its natural history collections are of Thursdays and Fridays only, 10am- Excavated in 1970 and opened in Heritage diesel trains between Royal world-class importance as a scientific 5pm. 1977. Many display panels, finds and Tunbridge Wells and Eridge passing resource. Quex House is a regency commentaries. Located in Dover town through the beautiful high rocks and house featuring a Victorian walled Half price admission. centre, railway and buses close by. picturesque village of Groombridge. garden. Wedding and functions venue Wheelchair access limited to garden Dover Priory Station (600 yards). Local attractions are easily accessible, and Mama Feelgoods Boutique Cafe. and tea shop. Several buses to town centre. sit back, relax and enjoy the ride! Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

Eridge Station - Southern trains Triangle bus route between Visit the award-winning Hoghton Tower. Canterbury, Whitstable and Herne Join a guided tour of the beautiful state Weekends and bank holidays from Bay. rooms to hear about the history of the February to the end of October. Summer opening 10am-5pm. Autumn house and family. Wander through the Thursdays in June & July and Tues, & Spring opening 10am-4pm. Winter walled gardens and take in the views. Wed & Thurs in August. Christmas opening 10am-3pm. Park closes 1 Finish your day with a visit to our gift shop trains every weekend in December. hour after last entry. Dropslide open and an afternoon tea in our wonderful tea 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Not weekend and school holidays only. room. All income from tours benefits valid on special events. Save £2.50 per day ticket for up to the Hoghton Tower Preservation Trust. four people per membership card. Nearest motorway M65, J3. Disabled access available. Yes but be aware the woodland can get muddy. Preston Station (7 miles). WILDWOOD May - September: Sunday - Thursday. Wildwood Tours hourly from 11:30am to Herne Common, Herne Bay, 3:30pm. Kent, CT6 7LQ BROWSHOLME HALL Half price house tour admission. Does www.wildwoodtrust.org Clitheroe Road, Cow Ark, Clitheroe, not include special events. ROCKINGHAM CASTLE Lancashire, BB7 3DE No wheelchair access. 01931 712350 www.browsholme.com Rockingham, Market Harborough, [email protected] LEIGHTON HALL Leicestershire, LE16 8TH 01254 827160 Carnforth, Lancashire, LA5 9ST 22 Wildwood near Canterbury is a great www.rockinghamcastle.com day out for all ages where you can [email protected] www.leightonhall.co.uk 01536 770240 see amazing British wildlife from past Ancestral home of the Parker family & present. Set in 40 acres of ancient since 1507. Major collection of 01524 734474 [email protected] British woodland is a stunning collection portraits, furniture, arms, stained glass [email protected] A royal castle and a family home for of over 200 British animals in natural & antiquities. 1 mile from Bashall Eaves 450 years. The predominantly Tudor enclosures. See bears, wolves, otters, Visit the award-winning Leighton Hall & 5 mile North West of Clitheroe. building, within Norman walls, has badgers, owls, lynx, beavers, bison, and join one of our fascinating tours architecture, furniture and works of wild boar, reindeer and many more as Clitheroe Station (5 miles). of this beautiful historic house. As well art. 18 acres of formal and wild garden you walk around the twisting trails. May to end September, every as enjoying the woodland walk, there command a splendid view of 5 counties. Finish your day by letting your kids go Wednesday. 1st Sundays in May, June, is the traditional garden, gift shop Located on the A6003 North of Corby. wild in our amazing adventure play park July and Sept. Spring and August and plant stand, charming tearooms featuring Kent’s tallest vertical drop Bank Holiday Mondays. 11.30am to and birds of prey display - weather Kettering and Corby stations. slide, twisting tube slide, pine marten 4pm. Hall tours from 12 Noon. permitting. Childrens Play area. towers & a special area for under- From Easter Sunday to the end Half price admission. Carnforth station, 3 miles away. 5’s. Join our experts at weekends & Silverdale Rail Station and then walk of May: Sundays & Bank Holiday school holidays for close-up animal Wheelchair access to ground floor. or by bus. Bus is Route 51. Mondays. June to the end of talks and feeds. Visit the Beaver Lodge 1st May - 30th September: 2 - 5pm September: Tuesdays, Sundays & Cafe or enjoy your own food in our HOGHTON TOWER Tuesday - Friday. Also Bank Holiday Bank Holiday Mondays. Open 12 noon spacious picnic area. Wildwood is not – 5pm. Grounds open at 12 noon. Hoghton, Lancashire, PR5 0SH Sunday & Monday. Open on Sundays just a wildlife park but also a unique in August. Castle opens at 1pm. conservation project which aims to 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 during www.hoghtontower.co.uk 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. protect native British wildlife & bring standard opening dates entered in back the original wild wood. Every visit 01254 852986 guide. Not valid at special events. helps to preserve some of the UK’s most Wheelchair access on ground floor endangered animals. [email protected] Partial accessibility. only. LINCOLNSHIRE DODDINGTON HALL & GARDENS www.elshamhall.co.uk CASTLE 01652 688698 BURGHLEY HOUSE Doddington, Lincoln, Estate Office, Grimsthorpe, Bourne, Lincolnshire, LN6 4RU [email protected] Lincolnshire, PE10 0LZ Burghley Park, Stamford, Privately owned gardens and country www.doddingtonhall.com Lincolnshire, PE9 3JY park with beautiful lakeside garden, www.grimsthorpe.co.uk 01522 694308 secret garden, contemporary walled 01778 591205 www.burghley.co.uk garden with animals and birds, and [email protected] adventure playground. The perfect 01780 752451 [email protected] Begun in 1595 by Robert Smythson, place for a family day out. Lambing [email protected] one of England’s foremost Elizabethan days in the Spring and special events House dating from 13th century with Architects. Doddington Hall is a fine on Bank Holiday weekends. Traditional fine furniture & paintings. Extensive The largest & grandest house of the first example of a late Elizabethan Mansion, afternoon teas available from the gardens, woodland walk, tea room & Elizabethan age. Built by William Cecil, it is still a lived-in and much loved Secret Garden tea rooms. Entry from shop. Family cycle trail and cycle hire Lord High Treasurer to & still family home, alive with history and B1206 Brigg/Barton Road. Within easy facilities. On the A151, 10 minutes lived in by his descendants. The world interest. Over 400 years of unbroken access off M180/55 Humber Bridge turn drive from A1. famous collection of art & porcelain family occupation has resulted in off (follow the Brown Heritage signs). Grantham Station (15 miles). make Burghley a real 'Treasure House'. fascinating collections of furniture, Barnetby Station (about 4 miles). Fully licensed Orangery Restaurant (in weaponry, paintings, ceramics, textiles, Call Connect operates locally. April & May: Sundays & Thursdays. designed building). household objects, porcelain and a Open daily throughout the year, 11am June-Sept: Sunday to Thursday Gardens of Surprise, incorporating the wealth of amusing stories all to be - 5pm. Seasonal reductions between inclusive. 10.30am - 6pm. Historical Garden of Surprises and the found in and around Doddington Hall. October and March. Contemporary Sculpture Garden. Close 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Not 23 5 miles West of Lincoln on the B1190 2 Adult tickets for the price of 1, valid for special event days. to the A1, 1 mile east of Stamford on signposted from the A46 Lincoln bypass, excluding special events. the B1443, clearly signposted. and A57 between the A1 & Lincoln. Wheelchair access except to 1st floor Wheelchair access & toliets. of castle. Stamford Station (1 mile). Hykeham Train Station; 3.8 miles. Lincoln train & bus services; 4.8 17th March – 28th October (closed 30th Elsham Hall Gardens August - 2nd September). Open daily, miles. Gardens Only: 11th February - 25th except the House is closed on Fridays. March and October. Sundays only, 11am-5pm (last admission 4.30pm). 11am – 4.30pm. Hall and Gardens: 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. 1st April - 30th September. Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Bank Wheelchair access. Holiday Mondays, 12pm – 4.30pm. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Offer does not apply to special Leighton Hall events, Sculpture Exhibition or Christmas Opening Disabled parking. 2 for 1 entrance for wheelchair user and carer. Disabled facilities in the Hall, gardens and farm shop. ELSHAM HALL GARDENS AND COUNTRY PARK Elsham, Brigg, North Lincolnshire, DN20 0QZ Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

Turkey Street 2 miles - bus services LONDON Built circa 1700, this atmospheric from Enfield town four-storey townhouse was home and November to February: Weekdays CAPEL MANOR GARDENS workplace to Samuel Johnson (1709 only, 10am to 5pm. March to October: - 1784) in the mid-18th century, and Bullsmoor Lane, Enfield, Seven days a week, 10am to 5.30pm. London, EN1 4RQ 2 adult tickets for the price of one. it was in the Garret that he wrote his influential "Dictionary of the English www.capelmanorgardens.co.uk Not valid on special event days (see website for details) Language". Historic interior, Library, 0303 0031234 Wheelchair access and hire of Audio guide, Foreign interpretation mobility scooters available on available. Gift shop and childrens' [email protected] request. costumes. We have more than 60 beautiful DR JOHNSON'S HOUSE Rail: Farringdon/City Thameslink/ gardens and landscapes to explore Blackfriars. Underground: Chancery across our 30 acre estate in Enfield, 17 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE Lane or Blackfriars. Bus: Fleet Street. North London. Our seasonal bedding October – April: Monday – Saturday, displays, growing animal collection, www.drjohnsonshouse.org Fairy Forest, maze and special events 11am – 5pm. May – September: Monday – Saturday, 11am – 5.30pm. throughout the season make Capel 0207 3533745 Manor an enchanting day out for all Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays. ages. Conveniently located off Junction [email protected] 25 on the M25 with free parking. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Cannot be used in conjunction with Dr Johnson’s House 24 any other offer. Trust © DJH Freud Museum Regrettably no wheelchair access Tube/London Overground: Finchley and many steps in the House. Audio Road/Finchley Road & Frognal. guide is available free of charge to Buses: 13, 113, 187, C11 all stop near visually impaired visitors. Finchley Road tube. 5 minute walk from Finchley Road. See website for FREUD MUSEUM LONDON detailed directions. Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm – 5pm. 20 Gardens, Hampstead, Open Mondays in summer (check London, NW3 5SX website for dates). www.freud.org.uk Half price admission on full adult fee, on presentation of a valid membership card. 020 74352002 Wheelchair access limited to ground [email protected] floor, including Freud’s study and gardens (open weather permitting). Visit London’s most intriguing historic house museum. The Freud Museum SYON PARK was the final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, London Road, Brentford, TW8 8JF who came here after fleeing Nazi- www.syonpark.co.uk occupied Vienna. See Freud’s study, preserved as he left it, and the original 020 8560 0882 psychoanalytic couch on which his patients told him their dreams. [email protected] Holkham Hall The London home of the Duke of Disabled access, apart from one gallery. Northumberland, built on the site of a medieval Abbey, contains some FAIRHAVEN WOODLAND & of Robert Adam's fine interiors with WATER GARDEN the spectacular Great Conservatory surrounded by 'Capability' Brown School Road, South Walsham, Norwich, landscaped gardens. Norfolk, NR13 6DZ Gunnersbury (District Line) then 267 www.fairhavengarden.co.uk or 237 bus to Brent Lea. E8 bus from Ealing Broadway underground. Short 01603 270449 walk from Syon Lane rail station. [email protected] 12th March to 28th October. Gardens open daily 10.30am – 5pm (last entry 130 acres of ancient woodland, water 4pm). House open Wednesdays, gardens and a private broad, set in the Thursdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays Norfolk countryside. Over 3 miles of 11am – 5pm (last entry 4pm). woodland walks, boat trips throughout 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Not the summer season, children's nature Valid for special events. trail, bird hide, sensory garden and Limited wheelchair access. programme of events throughout the year, please see website for details. © DJH Trust © DJH NORFOLK Our visitors centre has been awarded 25 'Highly Commended' status from the BRESSINGHAM STEAM AND CPRE Norfolk Awards. 9 miles East of GARDENS Norwich, signposted on A47 at B1140 Junction. Low Road, Bressingham, Diss, Home to the Earls of Leicester, this 2 adult tickets for the price of 1, Norfolk, IP22 2AA Acle Railway Station 3 miles. magnificent Palladian hall is a available on days Holkham Hall is open www.bressingham.co.uk Open every day except Christmas living treasure house of artistic and for the visitor season. Offer does not architectural history. Discover the fun extend to events. Car parking charges 01379 686900 Day. 10am to 5pm March to end September. 10am to 4pm October to and interactive Field to Fork Experience, apply. [email protected] end February. the beautiful 18th century Walled You have to go a long way to beat 2 for the price of 1 (cheapest ticket Garden and the golden sands of Holkham Full accessibility guide on our Bressingham Steam and Gardens for a free). Does not apply to special Beach and National Nature Reserve. website. family day out. For here is where world events. Coasthopper bus stops in Holkham renowned gardener and horticulturist 100% of Gardens accessible by village 3/4 mile walk to attraction. MANNINGTON ESTATE Alan Bloom combined his passion wheelchair. Fully accessible 25th March to 31st October. Holkham for plants and gardens with his love facilities. Hall: Sunday, Monday & Thursday, 12- Mannington, Norwich, of steam to create a truly unique HOLKHAM HALL 4pm, plus Good Friday 30th March Norfolk, NR11 7BB experience for all the family. and Easter Saturday 31st March for Holkham Estate Office, our Easter event and 26th and 27th www.manningtongardens.co.uk Diss station (3 miles). Wells-next-the-sea, Norfolk, NR23 1AB October for our Halloween event. 28th March to 28th October, daily www.holkham.co.uk Please note that the hall is closed 01263 584175 (10.30am - 5pm). Please refer to on Sunday 29th July. Walled Garden, website for specific dates and events. 01328 713111 Field to Fork Experience, Woodland [email protected] 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. [email protected] Adventure Play Area, café and shop Excludes special event days. open daily 10am-5pm. Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

Half price admission. Stody Lodge Gardens is well-known for the sheer intensity of its planting Partial wheelchair access. together with the carefully planned riot of colour on a grand scale, 14 acres RAVENINGHAM GARDENS in total. The extensive collection of rhododendrons and azaleas, magnolias Raveningham, Norwich, and camellias, all under-planted with Norfolk, NR14 6NS bluebells and spring bulbs, continue to make this family garden one of the www.raveningham.com most exciting to visit in the country. The four acre Azalea Water Gardens, 01508 548480 approached via the long rhododendron- lined drive, is considered to be the [email protected] largest mass planting of azalea mollis (around 2,000 plants) in the UK. Gardens surrounding Georgian Hall. Norwich rail station 40 minutes by Victorian walled kitchen garden, road. Bus station in Holt. glasshouses, herb garden, millennium 1pm – 5pm on Sunday 6th May, lake, sculptures, specialising in Sunday 13th May, Tuesday 15th and Walsingham Abbey galanthus and agapanthus. Details Wednesday 16th May, Sunday 20th of special events can be found on May, Tuesday 22nd to Friday 25th May 26 Gardens surround this medieval moated [email protected] the website. 10 miles South East of inclusive, Sunday 27th May and Bank manor house. Wide variety of plants, Norwich. Sign-posted off A146 at Hales. Holiday Monday 28th May. shrubs and trees with an extensive The Plantation Garden is a grade II* Half price admission. collection of heritage and modern registered garden Norwich Station 15 miles. roses. Hall open by appointment for established in a medieval chalk quarry Accessible, but only partially special interest groups and on some close to Norwich city centre, adjoining Thursday 1st February to Wednesday accessible to Azalea Water Gardens. summer garden open days. Signposted the Catholic Cathedral. During the 28th February, Sunday to Friday: WALSINGHAM ABBEY GROUNDS & off the B1149 Norwich/Holt Road. mid-20th century the garden fell into 11am to 4pm then Wednesday disrepair and became completely SHIREHALL MUSEUM Very limited. 2 miles for buses to 4th April to Friday 31st August, neglected and overgrown. The Wednesday to Friday: 11am to 4pm. The Shirehall Museum, Common Place, Saxthorpe. Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6BP 27th of May to 2nd of September; Plantation Garden Preservation Trust, Please see website for Bank Holidays, Sundays, Wednesday, Thursday & run by volunteers, was formed in 1980 Summer Sundays and specials. www.walsinghamabbey.com Friday; 11am - 5pm. to begin the restoration of the garden. The garden comprises nearly 3 acres in 2 adult tickets for the price of 1, 01328 820510 Half price admission excluding excluding special events. charity days. all, a haven of peace and tranquillity and a glimpse into a bygone age. Its features Stody Lodge Gardens Reasonable access with reserved include a Gothic fountain, flower beds, Partial wheelchair access. parking, lavatories and boardwalk lawns, Italianate terrace, 'Medieval' across meadow with wheelchair terrace wall, summer-house, woodland STODY LODGE GARDENS accessible bird hide. walkways and rustic bridge. Stody Lodge, Melton Constable, PLANTATION GARDEN Norwich Station; a good mile away, bus Norfolk, NR24 2EW service; bus stop outside gate. There is www.stodylodgegardens.co.uk 4 Earlham Road, Norwich, no parking at the Garden. Norfolk, NR2 3DB All year round; 9am - 6pm. Check 01263 863994 www.plantationgarden.co.uk on website for variation on Winter opening times. [email protected] [email protected] www.wwlr.co.uk House and Gardens - Easter Sunday Museum gives you a glimpse into the and Monday, 29th April to 2nd genius and legacy that Lord Armstrong Walsingham Abbey is in the centre 01328 711630 September: Sundays and Bank left. Check the website for an ongoing of Little Walsingham, North Norfolk, Holiday Mondays, and September: programme of events and activities. between Fakenham and Wells-next- [email protected] Wednesdays only. House: 2pm- the-sea. The grounds surrounding the 4 mile steam train journey through 5pm, Gardens: 12-5pm. Gardens Alnmouth and Berwick-upon-Tweed. Abbey are famous for the ruins of glorious North Norfolk countryside from Only - 15th May to 14th September: Bus stop 100m away. 4 miles from the the mediaeval Priory of Our Lady of Wells to Walsingham. Running for over Tuesdays to Fridays.12-4pm. A1 on B1341 or B1342. Walsingham and also for spectacular 30 years, this charming 10¼" narrow 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. 10th February - 28th October. Daily. displays of snowdrops in February. A gauge steam railway is a fun time for all Does not apply to special events. 10am – 5pm. Last admission 4pm. 29th place of pilgrimage since the 11th the family. Wheelchair access to ground floor of October – 8th February 2019. Weekends century, the priory ruins stand in Coasthopper bus (100 yards). Large house and main features of garden. only. 11am-4.30pm. Last admission landscaped grounds with walks along coach/car park at Wells Station. 3.30pm. the river Stiffkey, through woodland February half-term and March NORTHUMBERLAND 20% discount on admissions. Not valid and meadows. Admission includes weekends. 17th March to 28th on Family tickets or car parking. the Shirehall Museum, an unmodified October, 7 days a week. BAMBURGH CASTLE Georgian courtroom, in use until Half price admission. Only applies Bamburgh, Northumberland, NE69 7DF 1971, with displays on the history of to normal service. Excludes special Limited access. DVD presentation. pilgrimage, law and order and village events. www.bamburghcastle.com history. CHILLINGHAM CASTLE Wells-Fakenham bus service 29 stops Limited. Please call for further 01668 214208 Chillingham, Alnwick, Northumberland, in Common Place, right outside information. [email protected] NE66 5NJ 27 our entrance. Links at Wells with the popular Coasthopper. Links at NORTHAMPTONSHIRE An iconic coastal castle with www.chillingham-castle.com Fakenham with buses to Norwich and spectacular views. Fourteen rooms King's Lynn. Rail: Wells & Walsingham DEENE PARK house a magnificent collection of 01668 215359 Light Railway. Main station King's china, porcelain, artwork and armour. Deene, Corby, [email protected] Lynn, 26 miles. The Armstrong and Aviation Artefacts Northamptonshire, NN17 3EW Snowdrop Walks Jan 27th-Mar 4th: Daily 10am-4pm. March 5th-25th: www.deenepark.com Chillingham Castle Mon-Fri 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm, Sat- Sun 11am-4pm. March 27th-Nov 4th: 01780 450278 Daily 11am-4pm. Nov 5th-Dec 21st: Mon-Fri 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm. [email protected] 2 adult tickets for price of 1, except on charity days or special events Deene Park is home to the Brudenell Wheelchair users can reach some, family and was the seat of the 7th Earl but not all, of the woodland. Some of Cardigan who led the Charge of the boarded pathways. Rough meadow Light Brigade. The lakeside gardens grass and unsurfaced woodland feature a parterre by David Hicks with paths. Manual wheelchair available topiary teapots, circular Hornbeam on request. Disabled toilet. hedge, long borders, old fashioned roses and specimen trees. Off A43 THE WELLS & WALSINGHAM LIGHT between Corby and Stamford. RAILWAY Kettering approx 13 miles away. 6 Wells to Walsingham Light Railway, Wells- miles North East of Corby, off A43. next-the-sea, Norfolk, NR23 1QB No bus service. Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

A medieval family fortress. Dungeons, 0115 9632938 OXFORDSHIRE torture chamber and state rooms. director@papplewickpumpingstation. Same family line since 1246. Tearoom, org.uk BROUGHTON CASTLE gardens, woodland walks and lake Broughton, Banbury, (Simon Jenkins 4 star. Independent: Britain's finest Victorian fresh water Oxfordshire, OX15 5EB The best of top 50 castles of Britain pumping station. Steam events eight and Ireland). Films include: Elizabeth, times a year with underground www.broughtoncastle.com Most Haunted etc. Tearoom. Self reservoir tours and other engines in 01295 276070 catering apartments. Ghost tours and steam. In the main building there are two massive beam pumping engines, vigils. Weddings and functions. Turn [email protected] off A1 towards Alnwick & follow brown thought to be the last built by the heritage signs. famous firm of James Watt & Co. of The family home of Lord & Lady Saye Soho Works, Birmingham and London. Alnmouth (17 miles) or Berwick- and Sele for 600 years. Moated castle Chinnor & Princes Just off the A60 between Mansfield upon-Tweed Stations (24 miles). built in 1300 and greatly enlarged in Risborough Railway and Nottingham, near to Ravenshead 30th March- 28th October. 12pm – 1550. It contains fine panelling and Village. 5pm every day. fireplaces, splendid plaster ceilings A Great Western style branch line 2 miles on A60 (Pronto Bus). and good period furniture. Civil war operating steam and heritage diesel Half price admission. parliamentary connections. Beautiful trains from Chinnor Station. Sit back, In Steam: 1st & 2nd of April. 6th, walled gardens, with old roses, shrubs relax and enjoy scenic views on a Very limited wheelchair access. 7th 27th & 28th of May. 14th &15th & herbaceous borders. Tearoom, Gift leisurely 45-50 minute round trip along July. 26th & 27th August 15th & 16th NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Shop and free parking. 2 miles west the Chiltern foothills. Look out for the September. 20th & 21 October. 8th & of Banbury on B4035 Shipston-on- 28 wildlife & Red Kites. Free car park, 9th December. Opening Times 11am- Stour road. cafe and souvenir shop. PAPPLEWICK PUMPING STATION 5pm. Bus Routes - 40 and 275. Chiltern Rigg Lane, Ravenshead, 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 for Banbury Station. Railways - taxi from Princes Nottinghamshire, NG15 9AJ Steam events only. 1st April to 30th September. Risborough station (3.5 miles). Also Partial access. No wheelchair access www.papplewickpumpingstation.org.uk Wednesdays, Sundays and Bank 3 miles from Junction 6 of the M40 - into Engine House. Holiday Mondays, 2-5pm (last large free car park available. admission 4.30pm). Open on all Sundays and Bank Broughton Castle 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Holidays from Mothering Sunday until Offer only applies to our open days Halloween. Also open on some other and excludes all other special event days so please see website for details. days. 2 tickets for the price of 1. Pay £12.00 and take another Adult or Wheelchair access to ground floor Child free. Not valid on any Evening and gardens. Dining or Santa Specials. Wheelchair access on level to platform/ CHINNOR AND PRINCES shop/booking office and to train. Use RISBOROUGH RAILWAY Station Approach to gain access to the Station Road, Chinnor, station direct, not via the car park. Oxfordshire, OX39 4ER ROUSHAM HOUSE & GARDEN Nr Steeple Aston, Bicester, www.chinnorrailway.co.uk Oxfordshire, OX25 4QX 07979 055366 www.rousham.org [email protected] 01869 347110 Gardens [email protected] April to June and September - Sundays only. July to August - Garden created by William Kent in Thursday, Friday, Saturday and 1735 and has not been altered since. Sunday. Gardens, Chapel & Tea Landscape garden including the seven Room; 10am -5.30pm. House; 1.30pm arched Praeneste, herbaceous borders, - 5.30pm (last entry 4.30pm). parterre and pigeon house. A herd of 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 to rare Long-Horn cattle can be seen in house and garden. Excludes special the park. No tearoom or shop. Bring events days. a picnic, wear comfortable shoes and Unsuitable for wheelchairs. Rousham is yours for the day. No dogs allowed. House built in 1635 by Sir WATERPERRY GARDENS Robert Dormer - only open by prior arrangement. Waterperry, Nr Wheatley, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JZ Heyford Station (1 mile). S4 - Banbury bus passes the lodge gates www.waterperrygardens.co.uk at Rousham and will stop on request. 01844 339226 Gardens open every day of the year from 10 am. Last admission is at 4.30 [email protected] pm and the gardens close at dusk. Waterperry Gardens - eight acres of 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 beautifully landscaped ornamental www.rutlandwater.org.uk There are 2 disabled parking spaces 29 (garden only). gardens, including rose and alpine close to the AWBC. Accessible toilets gardens and one of the country's finest 01572 770651 are on site and many of the footpaths Wheelchair access in garden. herbaceous borders. Plant Centre, and hides are accessible, with low anglianwatereducation@ Garden Shop, Gift Barn, Gallery, Rural opening gates and passing places. A Life Museum and Teashop. Events rutlandwater.org.uk mobility scooter is available for hire; Henley-on-Thames, throughout the year and arts, crafts In picturesque Egleton Bay, situated on 24 hours' notice is required. Oxfordshire, RG9 6HF and gardening courses. The gardens the western shore of Rutland Water, are approximately 2.5 miles from BARNSDALE GARDENS www.stonor.com the AWBC has breathtaking views of Wheatley. For directions please see the reserve and exceptional walks. On The Avenue, Exton, Oakham, 01491 638587 website or call. the South Shore is the Lyndon Centre Rutland, LE15 8AH Haddenham and Thame Parkway [email protected] opened by Sir David Attenborough www.barnsdalegardens.co.uk 19mins. offering views of our famous Ospreys. One of England's oldest manor houses, Daily. April-October: 10am-5.30pm. Both reserves can be accessed from the 01572 813200 built and owned by the Stonor family November-March: 10am-5pm. A6003. from the 12th century in possibly 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. [email protected] Oakham Station is 1.5 miles away the most beautiful setting of any Does not apply to special event days. Geoff Hamilton's inspiring 8 acre from the reserve. house in England. Many unique items Wheelchair access. TV garden includes 38 individually of furniture, tapestries, sculptures, The AWBC is open 7 days a week. designed smaller gardens and features drawings, and family portraits are on RUTLAND Closing only Christmas Eve and linked by landscaped borders. Turn show. Souvenir gift shop and Stonor Christmas Day. March - October: off A606 (Oakham to Stamford) at . On B480, five miles north of ANGLIAN WATER BIRDWATCHING 9am-5pm, November - February: Barnsdale Lodge Hotel then 1 mile on Henley-on-Thames. CENTRE 9am-4pm. left. Nursery, gift shop and tearoom. Henley-on-Thames Station (5 miles). Egleton, Rutland Water Nature Reserve, 2 for 1 on permit prices. (Least Plus year-round courses and events for No bus service. Oakham, Rutland, LE15 8BT expensive permit free). garden lovers of all ages. Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

SOMERSET A hidden jewel in the heart of Somerset, the Abbey is known as England's cradle of THE BISHOP'S PALACE Christianity and is the resting place for AND GARDENS the legendary King Arthur. Set in 36 acres The Bishops Palace, Wells, of beautiful parkland with an outdoor Somerset, BA5 2PD summer cafe, shop, living history guides & regular events. Join us at Abbey House www.bishopspalace.org.uk for spectacular new events in 2018. 01749 988111 Buses from Bath, Bristol, Taunton and [email protected] Yeovil. Visitors will discover the Origin of Wells November to February – 9am to 4pm. in the gardens at The Bishop's Palace; March to May – 9am to 6pm. June to the ancient springs that give the City of August – 9am to 8pm. September - Wells its name are found here and have October 9am to 6pm. been hugely significant from the Iron Age to the present day. Constructed in 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. medieval times, the palace has been Maximum of one discount per card. office and home to Bishops of Bath and Valid on normal admission gate price Wells for over 800 years. The Palace only. Not valid for special events. is world famous for its resident mute 30 The Dorothy Clive Garden Wheelchair accessibility to parts of swans that ring a bell alongside the the site. Gatehouse when they want to be fed. Rutland Flyer Bus no. 2. Oakham With fine views of Staffordshire and Cafe, shop, family friendly, lift to first MILTON LODGE GARDENS station is 4 miles away. Shropshire, this continually evolving floor of palace building and gardens Open daily except 24th & 25th Old Bristol Road, Wells, and contemporary 12 acre garden accessible by new even pathways. December. March-May & Sept-Oct Somerset, BA5 3AQ is managed by The Willoughbridge Bus services to and from Bath, 9am-5pm. June-Aug 9am-7pm. Nov- Garden Trust. Today the garden Bristol, Weston-Super-Mare, Cheddar, www.miltonlodgegardens.co.uk Feb 10am-4pm. boasts a ‘Winter Garden’, thousands Glastonbury, Street and Shepton 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. 01749 672168 of spring bulbs, dazzling azaleas & Mallet. Alight at Wells Bus Station. Monday to Friday only. Excludes Bank rhododendrons, waterfall, a laburnum Daily. Summer: 10am - 6pm. Winter: Mature Grade II* listed terraced garden Holidays. arch, edible woodland, AGM & fabulous 10am - 4pm. Last admission is 1 hour with outstanding views of Wells before closing. Wheelchair access. summer borders, a scree & water Cathedral and Vale of Avalon. Mixed garden, Royal Botanic Glasshouse and 20% Discount. borders, roses, fine trees, separate 7 SHROPSHIRE a delightful tearoom. acre arboretum. Half a mile North of Disabled access. Wells. From A39 Bristol to Wells turn Stoke-on-Trent railway station (10 North up Old Bristol Road. THE DOROTHY CLIVE GARDEN miles), Crewe railway station (14 GLASTONBURY ABBEY miles). No buses. Bath Station (20 miles), Castle Cary Willoughbridge, Market Drayton, (14 miles). Shropshire, TF9 4EU 17th March – 30th September: Daily, Abbey Gatehouse, Magdalene Street, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 9EL Good Friday - end October; Tuesday, 10am-5.30pm. 1st October - 31st Wednesday, Sunday & all Bank www.dorothyclivegarden.co.uk March: Weekends only, 10am-4pm. www.glastonburyabbey.com Holiday Mondays; 2pm - 5pm. Free entry. Excludes special event 01630 647237 days. 01458 832267 2 Adult tickets for the price of 1. [email protected] Partial disabled access. [email protected] No wheelchair access. WEST SOMERSET RURAL LIFE 2pm-4pm (last entry to Hall 3:30pm) interior offers a fascinating insight into MUSEUM on the following dates: 1st - 5th 17th century life. On B5051 follow April, 6th - 7th May, 27th - 28th May, brown and white signs. A500 the A5277 The Old School, Allerford, Minehead, 4th - 6th June, 23th - 26th June, 30th then B5051. Somerset, TA24 8HN July - 2nd August, 6th - 9th August, www.allerfordmuseum.org.uk 13th - 16th August Stoke Station (5 miles). Bus No. 98 from Newscastle and Bus No. 8 from 01643 862 529 Half price admission. Hanley. [email protected] Disabled access. All year; Sunday - Thursday; 1pm - Large collection of domestic and 4pm (last admission 3.30pm). agricultural items, from clay pipes to FORD GREEN HALL ploughs, housed in an old thatched 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Ford Green Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Victorian school, complete with Staffordshire, ST6 1NG schoolroom with original desks. Large Wheelchair access to ground floor. local photographic archive. Museum is www.fordgreenhall.org.uk Milton Lodge Gardens 100 yards from A39 between Minehead 01782 537696 WHITMORE HALL and Porlock. Whitmore, Newcastle Under Lyme, SHERBORNE GARDEN Bus service, 100 yards. [email protected] Staffordshire, ST5 5HW Ford Green Hall is a 17th century Litton, Somerset, BA3 4PP Easter to end October: Tuesday - 01782 680478 timber-framed farmhouse which was 01761 241220 Friday, 10.30am - 4pm. Sundays & Bank Holidays, 1.30pm - 4.30pm. home to the Ford family for nearly 200 [email protected] 6 acre gently sloping garden with Groups by arrangement. years. Its period garden and historic 31 small pinetum, holly wood, and many unusual trees and shrubs. Cottage Half price admission. garden leading to privy. Three ponds Whitmore Hall Partial access only. linked by wadi and rills with stone and wooden bridges. A hosta walk STAFFORDSHIRE leading to pear and nut wood. Rondel and gravel gardens with grasses and CHILLINGTON HALL phormiums. Collections of day-lilies and rose species. Good plant labelling, Codsall Wood, Wolverhampton, plenty of seats, car park and picnic Staffordshire, WV8 1RE area. Refreshments available. 7 miles www.chillingtonhall.co.uk north of Wells. 1 mile from Harptree Court. 01902 850236 Bristol/Bath Stations (15 miles). 1/2 [email protected] mile from Litton on B3114 towards Chillington Hall has been the family East Harptree. home of the Giffards for over 800 Opening for NGS in February and SWL years. The present house is a product Trust in May. For other opening times of two differing Georgian styles by and information, please phone 01761 architects Francis Smith and Sir John 241220. Groups always welcome. Soane. The Grounds surrounding Free to all CPRE members. the Hall, including The Pool, were landscaped by Capability Brown. Wheelchair access. Dogs on leads Codsall Station (3 miles). No public welcome. transport from station available. Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

Whitmore Hall is a Grade I listed Stoke-on-Trent (8 miles). www.glemhamhall.co.uk No public transport. building, designated as a house of Open every Tuesday and Wednesday outstanding architectural and historical 01728 746704 from 1st May to 31st August, 2pm 1st May – 16th September: Tuesday, interest. Parts of the Hall date back to [email protected] until 4.30pm with guided tours at Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday and a much earlier period. For 900 years Bank Holiday Mondays. 11am to 2.15pm, 3.00pm and 3.45pm. Dating from 1560, the red brick it has been the seat of the Cavenagh- 4:30pm. Mainwarings, direct descendants of Half price admission. mansion was remodelled in the 18th century. Large gardens in the traditional the original Norman owners. The Hall Wheelchair access to ground floor 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. symmetrical English manner are within has beautifully proportioned light only. Offer not valid on event days - please rooms. There are family portraits a 300-acre park noted for its ancient see website for more details. to be seen with a continuous line SUFFOLK oaks. The estate was acquired by the dating from 1624 to the present day. Cobbold brewing family early in the Disabled access. GAINSBOROUGH'S HOUSE 20th century. Heritage signs off the A12 The park encompasses a lime avenue LITTLE HALL leading from the Hall to the parish 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, between Woodbridge and Saxmundham. church, an early Victorian summer Suffolk, CO10 2EU Wickham Market - 3 miles. Very Market Place, Lavenham, house, refurbished in 2017 and a rare limited bus services and taxis. Suffolk, CO10 9QZ Elizabethan stable block. www.gainsborough.org 4th March, 13th March, 1st April, www.littlehall.org.uk 01787 372958 15th April, 20th April, 24th April, Glemham Hall 16th May, 1st June, 8th June, 01787 247179 [email protected] 21st June, 4th July, 8th July, 29th August, 30th December. All tours [email protected] 32 Childhood home of Thomas begin at 2.30pm except as shown. Little Hall, built in the 1390s as a Gainsborough RA (1727-1788). Tours last for approx. 1.5 hours. family house and workplace, is now Georgian fronted town house, displays Please pre-book directly with an independent, accredited museum an outstanding collection of the Glemham Hall on 01728 746704. owned by the Suffolk Building artist's work. A varied programme Half price admission for dates specified Preservation Trust containing an of temporary exhibitions is shown in opening times section only. eclectic mix of antiques, pictures, throughout the year. Attractive walled books, china and art collected by garden and charming gift shop. Follow Disabled access. former owners Colonel and Major the pedestrian signposts from the town Gayer Anderson, which retains the centre car parks or railway station. HELMINGHAM HALL GARDENS ambience of a family home and garden. Sudbury Railway Station and Bus Helmingham, Stowmarket, Station are a five minute walk away. Suffolk, IP14 6EF Bus 753 between Bury St Edmunds www.helmingham.com (12 miles) and Colchester (23 miles). Open all year; Monday - Saturday Car parks in Lavenham are free and 10am-5pm, Sundays 11am - 5pm. [email protected] visitors may find parking spaces in Closed; Good Friday & between Grade I listed gardens set in a 400 the Market Square opposite the Hall. Christmas & New Year. acre deer park surrounding a moated 24th March - 28th October. Mondays: Tudor Hall. Visitors are enchanted by 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. 10am-1pm. Tuesday - Sunday: 1pm- the herbaceous borders within the 4pm. Wheelchair access to ground floor Walled Kitchen Garden, Herb & Knot and to first floor via platform lift. gardens, Rose and Wild gardens. Enjoy Half price entry excluding special lunch in the Coach House Tearooms event days. GLEMHAM HALL and the Stable Shops offer a wide range Little Glemham, Woodbridge, Suffolk, of local produce, plants and garden Wheelchair access limited to parts of IP13 0BT accessories. Off B1077. the ground floor. Painshill Landscape Garden OTLEY HALL Somerleyton Station 1 mile. Hall Lane, Otley, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 9PA 29th March – 27th September. Hall and Gardens open Monday, Tuesday www.otleyhall.co.uk and Thursday. Gardens also open on 01473 890264 Wednesdays (not the Hall). 10am - [email protected] 5pm. 2 adults for the price of 1, except A stunning 15th century moated hall. Set special events and NGS open day in 10 acres of unique gardens, the hall is (HHA members Free). still a family home. The gardens include parts of an important design by Francis Limited wheelchair access. Inigo Thomas, featuring an H-shaped canal, nutteries, croquet lawn, rose WYKEN HALL GARDENS garden and nut walk. Sylvia Landsberg, author of The Medieval Garden, has Wyken Hall, Wyken Road, Stanton, also recreated historically accurate Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31 2DW designs. Cafe serving lunch, tea, coffee www.wykenvineyards.co.uk Early 18th century Grade II Listed 01932 868 113 and home made cakes. Guided tours by 01359 250262 Building incorporating plunge bath with appointment. 8 miles North of Ipswich Delft tiles, orangery, saloon and pump [email protected] off the B1079, turn right at the post [email protected] chamber with part restored water office in Otley and follow the signs. Discover a magnificent award-winning 4 acre garden with wildflower wheel. Hermitage and Sham Bridge, 18th century landscape garden with Ipswich Station (9 miles). meadows, nuttery and kitchen both 18th century follies, are found 33 follies and Serpentine Lake. Features gardens, herb, knot and rose gardens. in the grounds. A232 between Sutton Gardens: 9th May - 26th September; include a unique crystal Grotto (limited Also, an onsite restaurant called 'The and Croydon (use SM5 2GQ for Sat every Wednesday; 11am - 5pm. opening times), Ruined Abbey, Turkish Leaping Hare', a cafe and a vineyard nav.) with parking spaces in Carshalton Tent, Gothic Temple and Gothic 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. shop. 8 miles North East of Bury St. Village. Invalid for charity open gardens or Tower. Garden offers seasonal interest Edmunds. Follow brown signs for Tube: Northern line to Morden then when gardens are closed. including the John Bartram Heritage Wyken Vineyards from A143. bus 157. Bus: 157, 127, 407, X26, Collection North American trees & Very limited wheelchair access. 151. Train: Carshalton station, 5 Bury St Edmunds Station (8 miles) & shrubs (Plant Heritage), Walled Garden minutes walk. Stowmarket (10 miles). and Vineyard. Events, gift shop and tea SOMERLEYTON HALL GARDENS Sunday 8th April to 30th September. 2nd April - 1st October; Sunday - room. Dogs on a short lead welcome. 2.30pm to 5pm. In addition to the Somerleyton, Lowestoft, Friday; 2pm - 6pm. Closed Saturdays. Road M25/J10/A3 to London. Exit A245 Tower, The Hermitage is open on the Suffolk, NR32 5QQ 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. towards Cobham. Entrance and free 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month car park: Between Streets, 200m east www.somerleyton.co.uk from 15th April to September. Also Limited wheelchair access. of A245/A307 roundabout (closest Sat open by appointment for group tours. 0871 2224244 Nav reference KT11 1AA). SURREY Half price admission. Children are [email protected] free when accompanied by an adult. Rail: Cobham/Stoke d'Abernon 2 Disabled toilet. Partial access to World famous yew maze, children's trail miles. Bus Route 715 or 408. CARSHALTON WATER TOWER Tower (small flight stairs). Phone and willow play area. Restored formal Open daily. November – March: 10am to 136 West Street, Carshalton, ahead for full access details. 4pm or dusk if earlier (last entry 3pm). gardens, fountain and Victorian aviary. Surrey, SM5 2NR Kitchen Garden cafe serving lunch, tea PAINSHILL LANDSCAPE GARDEN Closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day. www.carshaltonwatertower.co.uk and homemade cakes. Local produce Portsmouth Road, Cobham, April – October: 10am to 6pm or dusk if and plants for sale. Five miles north west 0208 6470984 Surrey, KT11 1JE earlier (last entry 4.30pm). 2 adult entry tickets for the price of of Lowestoft on B1074, 7 miles south www.painshill.co.uk west of Great Yarmouth off A143. [email protected] 1. Excludes special event days. Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

Impressive 15th century timber- Hastings via bus 349. Station: framed Wealden hall-house steeped Robertsbridge (5 miles away), no bus in character and charm, with Tudor link. Also Kent & East Sussex railway garden and wide-ranging collections, steam train service to Bodiam including Sussex pottery and historic (seasonal). Daily except 24th & 25th December; Welden ironwork. Property given to 1st Jan – 2nd March 11.00 – 16.00, 3rd Anne of Cleves as part of her divorce March – 28th Oct 11.00 -17.00, and settlement from Henry VIII in 1541. 29th Oct – 31st Dec 11.00 – 16.00. In Southover High St (near St. John, The tea room, shop and grounds Southover Church). open 10.00 – 17.00 daily but closes at Lewes Station (8 mins). Buses from 16.00 from 1st Jan – 4th Feb and 29th Newhaven. Oct – 31st Dec. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Not 1st February to 30th November. valid on bank holidays or weekends. February & November: Daily 10am- Partial wheelchair access. Access 4pm (last admission 3.30pm). March to castle courtyard but towers only to October: Daily 10am-5pm (last accessible by steep spiral staircases. admission 4.30pm). Please note later 11am opening on Sunday, Monday and FISHBOURNE ROMAN PALACE Ramster Gardens Bank Holidays. Roman Way, Fishbourne, Chichester, 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 on West Sussex, PO19 3QR 34 www.sussexpast.co.uk/properties- Accessible route, pre-booked guided standard admission prices. Haslemere Station (5 miles). to-discover/fishbourne-roman- buggy tours, wheelchair loan, Limited wheelchair access. palace disabled toilets and parking. Garden Open 17th March - 10th BODIAM CASTLE 01243 785859 RAMSTER GARDENS June. Daily; 10am-5pm. Also open in October for Autumn colour, please Bodiam, Nr Robertsbridge, East Sussex, [email protected] Ramster, Chiddingfold, Surrey, GU8 4SN check website for dates. TN32 5UA www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodiam- www.ramsterevents.com Half price admission. castle Bodiam Castle 01428 654167 01580 830196 Wheelchair access to some areas. [email protected] [email protected] Nestling in a fold of the Surrey Hills SUSSEX One of the most picturesque & evocative Ramster Garden is over 20 acres of castles in Britain, built in 1385 as a peaceful mature woodland garden ANNE OF CLEVES HOUSE MUSEUM defence & as a home. Virtually complete famous for its outstanding collection exterior & enough of the interior to give of rhododendrons and azaleas, with 52 Southover High Street, Lewes, an impression of castle life. Visit our wonderful lake views and hillsides, Sussex, BN7 1JA conservation suite to see the latest filled with colour and interest a perfect hidden treasures we have uncovered escape for todays busy lifestyle. The www.sussexpast.co.uk/properties- from the castle archive. 2 miles East teahouse serves delicious homemade to-discover/anne-of-cleves-house of A21 Hurst Green. Half mile North sandwiches and cakes, open daily 01273 474610 of Kent & East Sussex Steam Railway. while the garden is open. 1.5 miles Tea Room serving range of hot and cold south of Chiddingfold A283. Plant sales food. Gift shop selling a range of castle [email protected] and refreshments. theme gifts. Explore part of the extensive remains Half price admission. 25 acres of beautiful woodland & water The imposing Norman castle offers of a Roman site built around AD75. gardens, and one of the finest acid wild magnificent views across the town The museum displays include artefacts Limited wheelchair access. flower meadows in Sussex. Restaurant, of Lewes and surrounding downland. discovered during the excavations and car & coach parking. Guide dogs only. 1 Fine adjacent 14th century gatehouse fine in-situ mosaics. An audio-visual PARK mile East of the A23, South of B2110. and 18th century Barbican house with production explains the site's history. extensive collection of local history Station. Stroll around the recreated Roman- Hammerwood, , and archaeological artefacts. In central style gardens and tour behind the Sussex, RH19 3QE 1st April to 31st October. Daily except Lewes. Wednesdays 1pm-5pm. scenes in the Collections Discovery www.hammerwoodpark.co.uk Lewes Station (7 mins). Numerous Centre. Shop and café. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. bus services from Brighton, , Fishbourne Station (5 mins walk). Buses 01342 850594 Excludes Event days Tunbridge Wells, Newhaven and 11, 56 and 700. Wheelchair access, with care. Haywards Heath. [email protected] Open daily from 1st February. November to February: 10am- February:10am-4pm. March to Built in 1792 as a Temple to LEWES CASTLE & BARBICAN 3.45pm. March to October: 10am- October: 10am-5pm. November to and Bacchus in romantic parkland by HOUSE MUSEUM 5.30pm. Last admission 30 minutes 16th December: 10am-4pm. 22nd Benjamin Latrobe, architect of the Barbican House Museum, 169 High Street, before closing time. Please note later & 23rd and 29th & 30th December: White House in Washington D.C. Found LEWES, East Sussex, BN7 1YE opening time of 11am on Sunday, 10am-4pm. derelict by present owners in 1982, Monday and Bank Holidays. Closed 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 on always ongoing restoration. Guided www.sussexpast.co.uk/properties- on all Mondays in January, Christmas standard admission prices. Excludes tours by the family, young people are to-discover/lewes-castle Day, Boxing Day and 1st January. special event days encouraged to come on the tours, 01273 486290 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 on Hammerwood is an academic resource. standard admission prices. 35 Excellent wheelchair access. [email protected] Teas served in the Elgin room with its Limited wheelchair access. GREAT DIXTER HOUSE copy of the . Monthly AND GARDENS concerts with some instruments from Finchcocks. Spectacular rhododendrons. Northiam, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 6PH 3.5 miles east of East Grinstead on A264 to Tunbridge Wells. www.greatdixter.co.uk East Grinstead (5 miles). 01797 252878 2pm guided tour. Wednesdays & [email protected] Saturdays, June to end of September 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Designed by Sir Edwin Luytens Children Free. and the family home of the late Christopher Lloyd who devoted his Wheelchair access to garden, ground lifetime to creating one of the most floor & tea-room. experimental, exciting and constantly HIGH BEECHES WOODLAND AND changing gardens of our time with yew WATER GARDEN topiary, meadow flowers, exotics, and medieval buildings. Nursery, gift shop, High Beeches Lane, Handcross, Haywards refreshments on site. Heath, West Sussex, RH17 6HQ

Hastings Station. 400 Bus. www.highbeeches.com 30th March - 28th October. Tuesday 01444 400589 - Sunday plus Bank Holidays. Garden [email protected] 11am - 5pm and House 2-5pm. Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

MARLIPINS MUSEUM May to October. Tuesday-Saturday: Enter through the 14th century Delight in the sweeping herbaceous 10.30am-4.30pm. gatehouse and wander the borders, elegant rose and historic 36 High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 on beautiful gardens or tour the walled gardens, the productive kitchen West Sussex, BN43 5DA standard admission prices. historic house. England’s longest garden, enchanting woodland paths www.sussexpast.co.uk/properties- Good wheelchair access with lift and medieval water filled moat encircles and tranquil vistas that form this to-discover/marlipins-museum toilet. 7 acres of tranquil gardens and award winning garden. Enjoy fabulous 01273 462994 MICHELHAM PRIORY, HOUSE & grounds, including the kitchen homemade food and warm hospitality garden, cloister garden, orchard, at 'arguably the best garden café in [email protected] GARDENS herbaceous border and bog garden. the county'. Gift Shop, Sculpture & Art Shoreham's local and maritime history Upper Dicker, , The site is steeped in history dating and Events. is explored in a 12th century flint and East Sussex, BN27 3QS back to 1229 from its foundation or Etchingham rail stations stone building, which may once have www.sussexpast.co.uk/properties- by Augustinian Canons, through the (both 5 miles away). been a Customs House. Inside, the to-discover/michelham-priory destruction caused by the Tudor 31st March to 29th September; dissolution of the monasteries and Tuesday - Saturday, Bank Holiday maritime gallery houses fine paintings 01323 844224 and models, and the rest of the museum into its later life as a country house. Mondays & Special Event days; 10am features exhibits dating back to man's [email protected] Explore the medieval watermill, - 5pm. earliest occupation of the area. working forge, rope museum and 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Shoreham Station (5 mins). Numerous Elizabethan Great Barn. Plenty of Not valid on Special Event days or bus services. free parking, cafe, playground and Bank Holidays, please call or check gift shop plus special events. website for details. Michelham Priory, House & Gardens Berwick (3 miles) & (4 Partial wheelchair access - please 36 miles) stations. call or see website for details. Open every day from 10th February THE PRIEST HOUSE to 21st December. Feb/Nov/Dec: North Lane, West Hoathly, 11am – 4pm, March to November: West Sussex, RH19 4PP 10.30am – 5pm www.sussexpast.co.uk/properties- 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 on to-discover/the-priest-house standard admission prices. Excludes 01342 810479 special event days [email protected] Wheelchair access to garden, cafe, Originally a 15th century timber- ground floor of house & watermill. framed farmhouse in a beautiful traditional cottage garden on the edge PASHLEY MANOR GARDENS of . Collection of 17th and 18th century domestic furniture, Pashley Road, Ticehurst, Near Wadhurst, needlework and household items. The East Sussex, TN5 7HE herb garden has over 150 culinary, medicinal and household plants. Within www.pashleymanorgardens.com the triangle formed by Crawley (6m), East Grinstead (5m) and Haywards 01580 200888 Heath (5m), 4 miles West of on the A22. [email protected] Haywards Heath & East Grinstead Stations (5 miles). Buses 81 and 84. March - October: Tuesday - Saturday www.stmarysbramber.co.uk & Bank Holiday Mondays; 10.30am - 5.30pm, Sundays; 12pm - 5.30pm. 01903 816205 (Closed Mondays except Bank Holidays). [email protected] 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 on standard admission prices. Enchanting medieval house with five

acres of delightful gardens. Fine Bianco © Anthony Limited wheelchair access. panelled interiors include the unique Elizabethan 'Painted Room.' Amusing ST MARY'S HOUSE & GARDENS animal topiary. Victorian ‘Secret’ Bramber, Steyning, Garden, Rural Museum, and Landscape West Sussex, BN44 3WE Water Garden. One of 'England's Thousand Best Houses' (Simon Jenkins). Winner of the Best Restoration in Pashley Manor Gardens Hudson's Heritage Awards. Teas. Car- park. Gift-shop. 10 miles north west of Brighton.

Shoreham-by-Sea Station (4 miles). Bus stop directly adjacent. May – September: Sundays, Thursdays and Bank Holiday Mondays, 2-6pm. St Mary’s House & Gardens 37 Also Wednesdays in August, 2-6pm. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Railway Station, 20 minutes Step back in time at the Weald & Limited wheelchair access. drive by taxi. Bus service to Henfield, Downland Living Museum. Come and 2 miles away. explore a fascinating collection of rural SUSSEX PRAIRIE GARDEN buildings that have been rescued from 1st June - 14th October. Open 1pm - locations across . Morlands Farm, Wheatsheaf Road 5pm. Closed on Tuesdays. Enjoy historic rural homes and their (B2116), Near Henfield, West Sussex, period gardens, traditional farm BN5 9AT 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. animals, crafts and trade workshops, Excludes special events and open days. www.sussexprairies.co.uk beautiful woodland, pasture and 01273 495902 wildflower meadows. Set in a beautiful Wheelchair access. 40-acre site within the South Downs [email protected] National Park near Chichester, discover WEALD & DOWNLAND the stories of the people who lived Featured on BBC Gardeners World, LIVING MUSEUM and worked in these rural buildings crammed with colour, this 8 acre garden from Anglo-Saxon to Edwardian times. Singleton, Chichester, Sussex, PO18 0EU features huge borders interlaced with Domestic and craft demonstrations small pathways allowing the visitor vary daily. The Museum and its café to get right inside the plantings. Teas www.wealddown.co.uk are dog-friendly. & delicious home baking and unusual plants for sale. Sculpture exhibited in 01243 811363 Stagecoach no. 60 Chichester – the garden. Located 2 miles North East Midhurst. Chichester rail station (7 of the village of Henfield. [email protected] miles) Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

1st January - 23rd December. 2nd February - 23rd December. Partially accessible: please call or Explore the beautifully furnished 10.30am - 6pm during BST and Weekday 10.30am - 4pm (February, email for details. Jacobean home of Shakespeare’s 10.30am - 4pm outside BST. Please November & December) 5pm (March - daughter Susanna and her wealthy check the website for details and October). Weekends & Bank Holidays CASTLE BROMWICH HALL physician husband, Dr John Hall. winter closure dates. open from 9am GARDENS Wander into the tranquil walled garden 2 for 1 adult tickets or 25% single 2 adults tickets for the price of 1. Chester Road, Castle Bromwich, and discover fragrant medicinal herbs. entry. Does not apply to events. See examples of the equipment that Dr Offer excludes access to ticketed The shop, restaurant and the majority Birmingham, , B36 9BT events or those which take place John Hall would have used. of the gardens are accessible to www.castlebromwichhallgardens.org.uk 15 minute walk from Stratford-upon- outside of regular Museum opening wheelchair users. Please contact us hours. Avon rail station. in advance to make the most of your 0121 7494100 March - October; 10am - 5pm, Disabled access. visit. [email protected] November - mid-March; 11am - 4pm. WARWICKSHIRE Open daily except for Christmas Day 10 acres of rescued formal 18th century and Boxing Day. WEST DEAN GARDENS ANNE HATHAWAY'S COTTAGE gardens with wild areas. Historic 30% discount on a Full Story ticket AND GARDENS planting and heritage orchards. A Holly only (Shakespeare's Birthplace, Hall's West Dean, Chichester, Croft, Shakespeare's New Place, Mary Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon, Maze, espaliered fruit and formal West Sussex, PO18 0RX Arden's Farm & Anne Hathaway's Warwickshire, CV37 9HH beds enclosed in tall walls. Ponds and wildflower area outside the walls. Cottage). Valid for unlimited entry www.westdeangardens.org.uk www.shakespeare.org.uk Picnics & families welcome. Coffee and for 12 months. Offer excludes the Family ticket. Excludes special 01243 818210 01789 338532 Gift Shop, Plant and Produce sales. 38 Greenways cycle route (partially off events. Partially accessible-please call or [email protected] road) passes by entrance. Bus 94, 70 [email protected] email for details. Relive Shakespeare’s Tudor love story from Birmingham city centre. Bus 71 Set within the rolling South Downs where he courted his bride-to-be. Solihull - Sutton Coldfield route. Lea LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL West Dean is a garden on an expansive Explore this 500-year old cottage and Hall or Stechford train stations appox High Street, Warwick, scale with something for each season. some of its original family furniture, 2 miles away. Warwickshire, CV34 4BH Wander through the 100m Edwardian including the Hathaway four-poster 1st April - 31st October; Saturday, www.lordleycester.com Pergola covered in roses and clematis, bed and the courting settle. Nine Sunday, Bank Holiday Mondays; to the award-winning Sunken Garden. acres of beautiful cottage gardens and 12.30pm - 4.30pm. Monday to Friday; 01926 491 422 Explore the restored Victorian Walled heritage orchards, woodland walks and 11am - 4pm. 1st November – 1st Kitchen Garden with its 13 splendid sculpture trail. April: Monday-Friday 11am-3pm. [email protected] 19th century glasshouses full of 1.5 miles from Stratford-upon-Avon Café closed Fridays and Mondays. chillies, tomatoes, orchids, peaches railway station. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1, and grapevines. Follow the river to Lord Leycester Hospital Open daily all year round except excluding events. the Spring Garden or enjoy the 2 1/2 Christmas Day and Boxing Day. March Disabled access. mile Arboretum walk set in beautiful - October; 9am - 5pm; November - parkland with panoramic views. Dogs mid-March; 10am - 4pm. on short leads welcome. The Visitor 30% discount on a Full Story ticket HALL'S CROFT Centre houses an imaginative gift only (Shakespeare's Birthplace, Hall's Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon, shop, plant sales area and licensed Croft, Shakespeare's New Place, Mary Warwickshire, CV37 6BG restaurant which uses produce grown Arden's Farm & Anne Hathaway's www.shakespeare.org.uk in the gardens. Cottage). Valid for unlimited entry Chichester Station, 6 miles. Bus for 12 months. Offer excludes the 01789 338533 Route no.60 between Chichester - Family ticket.Excludes special Midhurst events. [email protected] The Lord Leycester Hospital, the Experience the sights, sounds and April – September. Sunday, Monday, www.shakespeare.org.uk historic group of timber-framed smells of the working Tudor farm, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday buildings on Warwick High Street, has the childhood home of Shakespeares' 11am - 4pm and second Saturday 01789 204016 been an iconic part of Warwick’s history mother. A great day out for all the of every month. Special Event open [email protected] for nine hundred years. From the mid family! Explore the farm yard with days October - March. 1300’s the site was occupied by the its centuries-old barns and original 2 adult tickets for the price of 1, Walk in Shakespeare’s footsteps and Guilds of Warwick who constructed the dovecote, as well as geese herding, under 18's go free. explore the house where he was born majority of the medieval half-timbered falconry displays and rare breed Full access information availble on and grew up. Explore his life story at buildings including the Great Hall, the animals. our website: Plan Your Visit - Access the fascinating Famous Beyond Words Guildhall and the Masters house that & Facilities. Parts of the ground exhibition. Journey back in time with are virtually unchanged to this day. In 5 minutes from Wilmcote Station, 3 floor are not wheelchair accessible: captivating tales by our costumed the reign of Queen Elizabeth I under miles from Stratford-upon-Avon. Exhibition Room, Lower Stone guides. Enjoy live performances with the patronage of Robert Dudley, Earl of 10th March - 28th October Daily; Building and Old Kitchen all have a Shakespeare Aloud!, our resident Leicester, the buildings became a place 10am - 5pm. Closed November to single step down. Rest of downstairs acting troupe. of sanctuary for wounded warriors mid-March. are accessible. 10 minute walk from Stratford-upon- of the Elizabethan age. The warriors 30% discount on a Full Story ticket SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE Avon rail station. - known as the Brethren – live in the Open daily all year round except only (Shakespeare's Birthplace, Hall's The Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street, buildings to this day and are led by Christmas Day. March - October; 9am Croft, Shakespeare's New Place, Mary Stratford-upon-Avon, the 33rd Master. The Gardens of the - 5pm, November - mid-March; 10am Arden's Farm & Anne Hathaway's Warwickshire, CV37 6QW Lord Leycester are 500 years old and Cottage). Valid for unlimited entry - 4pm. have grown produce for the Brethren’s for 12 months. Offer excludes the Kitchen (now a café) since the middle Family ticket. Excludes special 39 Middleton Hall ages; today they provide a beautiful events. sanctuary in the heart of this historic Partially accessible - please call or medieval site. email for details. Warwick Railway Station (10 minute walk up Smith Street then straight MIDDLETON HALL along the High Street) Middleton, Tamworth, All year round, Tuesday to Sunday. Staffordshire, B78 2AE Closed Bank Holiday Mondays. Easter www.middleton-hall.co.uk - September (10am - 5pm); Winter 01827 283095 (10am - 4pm). 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. [email protected]

Partial access. Middleton Hall is a Grade II* listed manor with a museum housed in buildings MARY ARDEN'S FARM spanning 750 years of architectural styles. The surrounding estate covers Station Road, Wilmcote, 42 acres and includes a Site of Special Stratford-upon-Avon, Scientific Interest, a walled garden and Warwickshire, CV37 9UN shops. Restored and run by a small www.shakespeare.org.uk independent charitable trust. On the A4091 between The Belfry and Drayton 01789 338535 Manor. [email protected] Tamworth train and bus station 3 miles. Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

30% discount on a Full Story ticket WILTSHIRE [email protected] only (Shakespeare's Birthplace, Hall's Set in the outstanding landscape of Croft, Shakespeare's New Place, Mary IFORD MANOR – THE PETO GARDEN Arden's Farm & Anne Hathaway's the Cranborne Chase, on the Dorset/ Cottage). Valid for unlimited entry Iford Manor, Iford, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire border, these beautifully laid for 12 months. Offer excludes the Wiltshire, BA15 2BA out gardens were created by General Family ticket.Excludes special Pitt Rivers in 1880. Recognised by events. www.ifordmanor.co.uk English Heritage as a Garden of National Importance, they were the Partially accessible - please call or 01225 863146 first privately owned gardens to be email for details. [email protected] opened for public enjoyment. Now SHAKESPEARE'S NEW PLACE home to peacocks and free-flying Grade 1* Italianate garden, famous for macaws. Follow signs from A354 22 Chapel Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, tranquillity and beauty, former home of between Salisbury and Blandford Warwickshire, CV37 6EP Edwardian landscape designer Harold Forum or from A30 between Salisbury Peto. Unique and romantic, the garden and Shaftesbury. www.shakespeare.org.uk is characterised by pools, terraces, sculpture, evergreen planting and Tisbury Station (11 miles) Shakespeare’s New Place 01789 338536 magnificent rural views. Housekeeper’s cream teas etc. at weekends from April Sunday 1st April to Sunday 8th Beautifully restored Palladian house, [email protected] to September. 7 miles south of Bath July (then closed for Larmer Tree on A36 Warminster Road and 2 miles ancestral home of the Viscounts 40 The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has Festival) Sunday 5th August to Bolingbroke, with exceptional southwest of Bradford on Avon on Sunday 19th August (then closed for transformed New Place, the site of B3109- brown signs Iford Manor. plasterwork, family portraits and room Shakespeare's home for the last 19 End Of The Road Festival) and Sunday devoted to 18th century society artist, Freshford train station (1.5 miles 16th September to Sunday 28th Lady Spencer. Delightful 18th years of his life, to create a major new walk via footpaths or 94 bus); heritage landmark where visitors can October. Sunday to Thursday only century ornamental fruit and flower Bradford on Avon train station (2.5 (closed Friday and Saturday). 11am walled garden. Stunning parkland with discover the story of the world famous miles; taxis available); Bath Spa train playwright at the height of his success to 4:30pm. children's play area and café. Just off station (7 miles; taxis available); 94 J16 M4 - follow brown signs. as a family man, writer and prominent Bath – Trowbridge bus (Westwood citizen of Stratford-upon-Avon. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1, stop 0.2 miles walk) does not include special events. Swindon 4 miles, buses 1 and 1A from 10 minute walk from Stratford-upon- 1st April - 30th September; Weds town centre. Avon railway station. - Sun & BH Mons; 11am – 4pm (last Most of the garden, with the exception Open daily all year round except entry 3.30pm); 1st October - 29th of the Dell, is accessible to disabled Lydiard Park is open every day Christmas Day. March - October; 9am October; Sundays only 11am – 4pm visitors using the gravel paths. (except 25th December). Lydiard - 5pm, November - mid-March; 10am (last entry 3.30pm) House open 24th March - 23rd 2 adult tickets for the price of 1, not December, Wednesday to Sunday - 4pm. LYDIARD PARK 30% discount on a Full Story ticket including special events or charity days. 11am-4pm. Walled Garden open only (Shakespeare's Birthplace, Hall's Limited wheelchair access and Lydiard Tregoze, Swindon, SN5 3PA every day (except 25th December) Croft, Shakespeare's New Place, Mary disabled facilities 11am-4pm. Arden's Farm & Anne Hathaway's www.lydiardpark.org.uk Cottage). Valid for unlimited entry LARMER TREE 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Not valid on special event days. for 12 months. Offer excludes the Tollard Royal, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 5PY 01793 466664 Family ticket. Excludes special Wheelchair access to garden and events. www.larmertree.co.uk [email protected] house is ground floor. Fully accessible - please call or email for details. 01725 516971 THE MERCHANT'S HOUSE Open all year, excluding Christmas and New Year. Monday to Saturday, 132 The High Street, Marlborough, 10am - 5pm. Sundays from 27th May Wiltshire, SN8 1HN to 30th September, 12pm - 5pm. www.themerchantshouse.co.uk 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. 01672 511491 Wheelchair access to ground floor only. [email protected] WILTON HOUSE Situated on Marlborough's famous Wilton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP2 0BJ high street is the house of Thomas www.wiltonhouse.com Bayly, a prosperous 17th century silk merchant. Built in 1653 it is being 01722 746728 carefully restored and is an unusual [email protected] place to visit. Home to the Earl of Pembroke. Splendid Pewsey or Swindon railway. Palladian house set in 21 acres of 31st March to 31st October. Guided landscaped parkland and smaller tours only on Monday, Tuesday, Friday formal gardens beside the River Nadder and Saturday. See website for further and Palladian Bridge. Magnificent state details. rooms and extensive art collection. 3 miles west of Salisbury off A36. 41 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Salisbury station (3 miles). Salisbury Stairlift to 1st Floor. Red buses - Wilton/Ditchampton Route THE SALISBURY MUSEUM - R3 & R8 buses from Salisbury Station. House: 30th March – 2nd April; 5th Bodenham Arboretum The King's House, 65 The Close, May – 2nd September, Sun to Thurs Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EN & Bank Holiday Saturdays only. Grounds: 30th March – 15th April; January & February: Sat. & Sun. only, www.salisburymuseum.org.uk 01527 831363 5th May – 9th Sept, Sun to Thurs & 10.30am – 4.00pm. March to June: Bank Holiday Saturdays only. Opening Tues. to Sun., 10.30am – 5.00pm. 01722 332151 [email protected] arrangements may change at short July & August: Daily, 10.30am – notice, so please check in advance. [email protected] Avoncroft is an award-winning open- 5.00pm. September & October: Tues. Half price admission. Offer does not air museum and home to 30 historic to Sun., 10.30am 4.30pm. November The Salisbury Museum is situated in extend to any of the events. buildings which have been rescued and & December: Tues. to Sun., 10.30am the medieval King's House within the rebuilt in beautiful 19 acre grounds. 4.00pm. beautiful setting of Cathedral Close. Wheelchair access. The collection includes a Windmill, 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Fantastic collections, exhibitions and Excludes ticketed events. WORCESTERSHIRE a medieval Town House and a fully events all year round. The Wessex furnished Prefab. Award-winning Tea Disabled access. Gallery houses one of Europe's most AVONCROFT MUSEUM OF Room. Just south of Bromsgrove, extensive collections of Stonehenge signposted from A38. Easy motorway BODENHAM ARBORETUM HISTORIC BUILDINGS and pre-historic artefacts. The King's access from M5, M6, M40, M42. Wolverley, Kidderminster, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, House Cafe serves lunches and cakes. Worcestershire, DY11 5TB Salisbury Station (0.75 mile). Bus: Worcestershire, B60 4JR Bromsgrove Railway station (2 miles). Alight at city centre. www.avoncroft.org.uk Local bus stop. www.bodenham-arboretum.co.uk Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

This moated medieval and Elizabethan Northallerton. For directions see our Built in 1598 Burton Agnes Hall is a manor house is owned by the Archdiocese website. magnificent example of Elizabethan of Birmingham. It has the best-surviving 1st April to 29th October; Daily 10am architecture, filled with treasures series of secret priests’ hiding places in - 5pm. collected over four centuries. Lawns the country, and rare Elizabethan wall 20% discount on admission. Does not and topiary bushes surround the paintings. Facilities include a gift shop, extend to evening events. hall, and an award-winning garden Moatside Tea Room and charming walled Wheelchair access only into gardens. contains a maze, potager, giant games, gardens. Location: On minor road, 1/2m See website for Access Statement. jungle garden and four thousand NE of A450/A448 crossroads at Mustow BRONTË PARSONAGE MUSEUM plant species. Found on A614 to Green. 3m SE of Kidderminster. Bridlington road. Bus no. 133, stopping outside ‘The Haworth, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD22 8DR Driffield station 5 miles, Bridlington Dog’ at Harvington. 6 miles. 3 Mar–4 Nov: Weds–Sun & BH Mons www.bronte.org.uk (closed Good Fri). Mar, Oct & Nov 01535 642323 30th March to 31st October: 11am to Harvington Hall 11.30am-4.30pm. Apr-Sept 11.30am- 5pm. 31st October -4th November: 5pm (last entrance all year 1hr [email protected] Café, shops and gardens. 11am-4pm. before closing). Occasionally the Hall The Brontë Parsonage Museum is 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 on 01562 852444 may be closed for a private function - the inspirational home of the Brontë Hall admissions. Does not include [email protected] please check the website for details. event days. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 family. Situated on the edge of Award winning Arboretum, beautifully but offer does not extend to special the Yorkshire moors, it houses the Wheelchair access to ground floor world’s largest collection of Brontë 42 landscaped and set within a working events. and grounds. farm. Free entrance to Visitor Centre Accessible toilets. Access to ground manuscripts and possessions. 2018 provides tree and plant sales, a gift floor, gardens, gift shop and Moatside marks the bicentenary of the birth of BURTON CONSTABLE HALL shop and restaurant carvery serving Tea Room. Access also available to Emily Brontë. Please visit www.bronte. AND GROUNDS meat from the farm and homemade ground floor of Malt House Visitor org.uk for a full programme of events. food. Follow brown signs from Centre, with an introductory film Keighley Station (3 miles). 663, 664, Skirlaugh, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU11 4LN Wolverley Church island along B4189. 665 from Keighley bus station. about the Hall. www.burtonconstable.com Signposted from Wolverley Church Open Daily from 1st February. April YORKSHIRE island along B4189. – October 10am – 5.30pm; November 01964 562400 – March 10am – 5pm. Closed during Kidderminster station (4 miles). BOLTON CASTLE January. [email protected] Open Wednesday to Sunday all year Castle Bolton, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, 2 adult tickets for the price of One of Yorkshire’s most spectacular and every day during October and DL8 4ET 1, excluding weekends and bank historic country houses, and one of its December. 10am-5pm. www.boltoncastle.co.uk holidays. Not available in conjunction best kept secrets. There’s so much to £1 off entrance fee. with any other offer. enjoy and discover within and around 01969 623981 Limited access. Please call ahead for this imposing Elizabethan mansion, Wheelchair access good. more information. [email protected] with over 30 rooms crammed with fine HARVINGTON HALL BURTON AGNES HALL & GARDENS arts, furniture, and many surprises. Enjoy the ultimate medieval experience Plus over 300 acres of Capability Brown Harvington, Kidderminster, in the historic heart of Wensleydale. This Burton Agnes, Driffield, North grounds to explore, with woodland and Worcestershire, DY10 4LR magnificent medieval fortress is steeped Humberside, YO25 4NB parkland walks and trails. Clearly marked www.harvingtonhall.com in history and has a wealth of atmosphere www.burtonagnes.com by historic house signs from Beverley and life. Experience the sights and sounds following A165 Bridlington Road and from 01562 777846 of the past with our wonderful falconry 01262 490324 Hull following the B1238 to Sproatley. displays, archery demonstration, wild [email protected] boar, bees and rare breed sheep. [email protected] Hull Station (10 miles). Stables, Grounds, Stables Tea Room Gardens & Tea Room 3rd February – Limited due to historic nature of site. & Gift Shop: Thursday 1st March to 01653 628771 31st October, Saturday to Wednesday: Access to some of the museum and Friday 21st December, daily 11am 10am-5pm (4pm: February – 28th ground floor of King's Tower. to 5pm. Hall: Saturday 24th March [email protected] March). Hall: 31st March – 31st to Sunday 4th November, Tuesday Palladian family home, designed October, Saturday to Wednesday: PARCEVALL HALL GARDENS to Sunday, 12noon to 5pm, last and built by Thomas Worsley. The 11am-5pm. Also open Good Friday. admission 4pm. Closed Mondays childhood home of Katharine Worsley, Christmas: 30th November – 2nd Skyreholme, nr. Appletreewick, except for Bank Holiday Mondays. Duchess of Kent. Entered through December and 7th – 9th December North Yorkshire, BD23 6DE (Friday - Sunday). 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. a huge riding school with beautiful www.parcevallhallgardens.co.uk rooms and collections of pictures and Wheelchair access. Stairlift to 1st floor; Half price admission for adults. furniture. Attractive gardens with disabled toilets available in car park. 01756 720311 magnificent yew hedges and cricket Wheelchair access to ground floor HELMSLEY WALLED GARDEN ground. Situated on B1257 halfway [email protected] and part of the garden. Cleveland Way, Helmsley, North between Malton and Helmsley. Yorkshire, YO62 5AH The only RHS and English Heritage Malton (8 miles), both railway & bus KNARESBOROUGH CASTLE & www.helmsleywalledgarden.org.uk listed gardens open to the public in station (next door to each other). OLD COURTHOUSE MUSEUM the Yorkshire Dales National Park. 24 01439 771427 1st - 28th June; 12.30pm - 4.30pm. The Mercer Art Gallery, Swan Road, acres of pure delight for anyone with a (Last admission 3.30pm). See website Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2SA love of gardens and a wonderful place [email protected] for tour times. www.harrogate.gov.uk/ to enjoy a peaceful stroll in glorious A historic five-acre garden at the foot 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. knaresboroughcastle surrounds. Follow brown signs direct from B6265 and B6160, best accessed of the North York Moors and set against 01423 556188 43 the backdrop of Helmsley Castle. Enjoy Partial wheelchair access. by car. stunning borders and displays of flowers [email protected] Skipton 9 miles, Ilkley 12 miles. including Clematis Garden, Physic KIPLIN HALL A stronghold of medieval kings, Garden and Kitchen Garden; relax over nr. Scorton, Richmond, Knaresborough Castle still stands lunch at the Vinehouse Cafe and browse 1st April - 31st October. Open daily, North Yorkshire, DL10 6AT towering over the beautiful River for gifts in the Garden Shop and Plant 10am - 6pm (last entry 5pm). Nidd. Explore the King's Tower, the Centre. Dogs welcome on leads. Car www.kiplinhall.co.uk dungeon and scurry through the secret park off B1257 (Stokesley Road). 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 or 01748 818178 underground tunnel. Visit the original 50% discount for single members. Thirsk/Malton rail stations 13 - 15 Tudor courtroom and learn more of Does not include event days. miles. Bus services in Market Square [email protected] Knaresborough's colourful history and 200m. Award winning historic house. Jacobean famous characters. Discover 'Life in No wheelchair access - gardens on a 1st April to 31st October. Daily, 10am- country seat of founder of Maryland, a Castle' with replica costumes and very steep hill. 5pm. Last entry is 4.30pm. George Calvert. Intriguing house now games. Download our audio tours for 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. adults and children. Enjoy events Does not include event days. furnished as a comfortable Victorian ROYAL PUMP ROOM MUSEUM home with 16 rooms open to the throughout the year. Full wheelchair access to garden, public. Crowded with an eclectic mix of Knaresborough is a 10 minute up- Crown Place, Harrogate, café, shop and disabled toilet. previous owners' furniture, paintings, hill walk from the train station. 5 North Yorkshire, HG1 2RY Limited disabled parking.Full access portraits and personalia. Ornamental minutes from bus stop. statement on website. www.harrogate.gov.uk/ gardens (undergoing restoration), Wednesday 28th March to Sunday 9th royalpumproommuseum HOVINGHAM HALL productive Walled Garden, woodland/ September. Also Creepy Castle week Hovingham, York, lakeside walks. Exhibition - 'Birth, Saturday 28th October to Sunday 4th 01423 556188 North Yorkshire, YO62 4LU Death and Inheritance'. November. Daily: 11am - 4pm. [email protected] www.hovingham.co.uk Northallerton Station (8 miles). Bus 55. 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility

Dive in and discover the sights, smells 30th March - 28th October. Tuesday One of the best preserved, complete 015242 41244 and tastes of the Royal Pump Room - Sunday plus Bank Holiday Mondays. medieval castles in England, situated at Museum. Would you go to a bar or café 10am - 5pm. (Last admission 4.30pm). the head of Skipton's bustling High Street [email protected] and within easy walking distance from that only sold water? What if it reeked 2 adult garden tickets for the price The longest show cave in Britain. The the railway and bus stations. Delightful of sulphur? Welcome to the Pump Room. of 1. guided tour takes about 80 minutes First built in 1842, it wasn’t unusual for tearooms, wonderful views, picnic and covers one mile. See underground 1500 glasses of water to be served each Wheelchair access, disabled parking areas, excellent shop. Woodland walks. waterfalls and streams, thousands of morning. The museum now tells the & toilet. Walking distance from Skipton. stalactites, and the massive Battlefield fashionable story of Harrogate and the Cavern. Cafe, shop and car park. 1.5 miles SHANDY HALL Open daily all year round; 10am making of the English spa town, a place from Ingleton on B6255 road to Hawes. famous for its health and happiness. (Sundays 11am)- 5pm. October - Coxwold, York, YO61 4AD March; 10am - 4pm. Closed 23rd-25th Buses to Ingleton Harrogate Station, 10 minute walk December February to October; Daily, 10am from bus and train station. www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. - 4pm. November to January; April - October: Monday to Saturday, 01347 868465 Except Bank Holidays/Special events. Saturdays and Sundays only. Weather 10.30am-5pm, Sundays 2-5pm. Wheelchair access to grounds only. permitting. Last tour 4pm. November to March: Monday - [email protected] Saturday, 10.30am- 4pm, Sundays THORP PERROW 2 adult tickets for the price of 1 2-4pm. Check for seasonal opening. Former home of Laurence Sterne, 18th Ramp to surface facilities, which Bedale, North Yorkshire, DL8 2PS 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. century author of 'Tristram Shandy' include a toilet for the disabled. and 'A Sentimental Journey'. Lived-in www.thorpperrow.com Cave tour not accessible for 44 Level access throughout the museum. museum with medieval wall paintings. wheelchair users. Two-acre garden, a walled garden with 01677 425323 SCAMPSTON WALLED GARDEN roses and perennials and a wild garden. [email protected] White Scar Cave Estate Office, Scampston Hall, Malton, Bookshop, small antiques and plants for sale. Gallery with exhibitions. A fantastic day out for the whole North Yorkshire, YO17 8NG family! Explore 100 acres of stunning www.scampston.co.uk Thirsk rail station 7 miles. 31X bus woodland, run wild and free in our from Helmsley to York. adventure play area or meet exotic 01944 759111 May - September. Garden: Daily birds and animals in the Bird of Prey [email protected] except Saturday, 11am-4.30pm. & Mammal Centre, no two visits to House Tours: Wedneday & Sunday Thorp Perrow Arboretum are the same! A contemporary garden created by 2.45pm and 3.45pm. Delicious locally-produced refreshments acclaimed designer and plantsman and lunches available in the tearoom. Piet Oudolf and set within magnificent 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Northallerton - 10 miles. 'Capability' Brown parkland. Striking perennial meadow planting sits alongside Partial wheelchair access in house Spring, Summer & Autumn; 10am - traditional spring/autumn borders. A and garden. 5pm. Winter; time vary – see website. green 'silent garden', and the dramatic SKIPTON CASTLE 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. use of grasses, bulbs and unusual shrubs Valid January, February, March, June, extend the season. The gardens are Skipton Castle, Skipton, July, September & December. complemented by an excellent cafe and North Yorkshire, BD23 1AW Partial wheelchair access. plant nursery and Scampston Hall opens for lively and informative guided tours in www.skiptoncastle.co.uk WHITE SCAR CAVE the summer months. 01756 792442 Ingleton, Carnforth, Yorkshire, LA6 3AW Malton train station (5 miles); Bus 843, 845. [email protected] www.whitescarcave.co.uk HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE ALL THIS IS LOST? HELP US SAVE OUR COUNTRYSIDE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

Our English countryside is disappearing fast. Green fields are gradually being destroyed to make way for retail parks, roads and other forms of development. Small towns and villages are being swallowed up as major cities expand and sprawl outwards. If this goes on, the simple pleasures of the countryside may not be here for future generations to enjoy. To protect our countryside it is vital that CPRE is here to fight for it, not just today and tomorrow, but for years to come. It is thanks to supporters like you that CPRE has made such a huge difference to our countryside. Since 1926 our campaigning has helped establish Green Belts, National Parks and the nation’s planning system, which ensures a clear distinction between town and country. A gift in your Will to CPRE costs you nothing in your lifetime but many years from now it can help safeguard the future of what William Blake famously called our “green and pleasant land”. We rely on legacies to fund a third of everything we do and they are critical to our ability to stand up for the countryside. Your gift could help us defend woods and meadows against housing or retail development, or help us promote legislation ensuring that development is directed towards previously used brownfield land instead of unspoilt countryside. What more inspiring legacy could you leave for future generations?

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Adlington Hall & Gardens...... 5 Capel Manor Gardens...... 24 Gawsworth Hall...... 6 Anglian Water Birdwatching Centre...... 29 Capesthorne Hall...... 6 Gilbert White & The Oates Collections...... 17 Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Gardens...... 38 Carshalton Water Tower...... 33 Glastonbury Abbey...... 30 Anne of Cleves House Museum...... 34 Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens...... 38 Glemham Hall...... 32 Askham Hall Gardens...... 9 Castle Hill Gardens...... 11 Goodnestone Park Gardens...... 20 Athelhampton House and Gardens...... 13 Chambercombe Manor...... 11 Great Dixter House and Gardens...... 35 Avington Park...... 17 Chavenage House...... 15 Grimsthorpe Castle...... 23 Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings...... 41 Chiddingstone Castle...... 20 Groombridge Place Gardens...... 20 Avon Valley Railway...... 4 Chillingham Castle...... 27 Haddon Hall...... 10 Bakewell Old House Museum...... 10 Chillington Hall...... 31 Hall's Croft...... 38 Bamburgh Castle...... 27 Chiltern Open Air Museum...... 4 Hammerwood Park...... 35 Barnsdale Gardens...... 29 Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway...... 28 Hartland Abbey & Gardens...... 11 Belmont House and Gardens...... 19 Cholmondeley Castle Garden...... 6 Harvington Hall...... 42 Berkeley Castle...... 15 Combermere Abbey...... 6 Head of Steam Darlington Railway Museum...... 14 Bishop’s Palace and Gardens, The...... 30 Cowper & Newton Museum...... 4 Helmingham Hall Gardens...... 32 46 Bodenham Arboretum...... 41 Crook Hall & Gardens...... 14 Helmsley Walled Garden...... 43 Bodiam Castle...... 34 Dalemain Mansion and Historic Gardens...... 9 High Beeches Woodland and Water Garden...... 35 Bolton Castle...... 42 Deene Park...... 27 Hoghton Tower...... 22 Bowes Museum, The...... 14 Dimbola Museum & Galleries...... 19 Holker Hall & Gardens...... 9 Brantwood...... 9 Doddington Hall & Gardens...... 23 Holkham Hall...... 25 Bressingham Steam and Gardens...... 25 Dorothy Clive Garden, The...... 30 Hovingham Hall...... 43 Brogdale Collection ...... 20 Dr Johnson's House...... 24 Hutton-in-the-Forest...... 9 Brontë Parsonage Museum...... 42 Edmondsham House & Garden...... 13 Iford Manor – The Peto Garden...... 40 Broughton Castle...... 28 Elgoods Brewery Garden...... 5 Ingatestone Hall...... 15 Browsholme Hall...... 22 Elsham Hall Gardens and Country Park...... 23 Jane Austen's House Museum...... 17 Burghley House...... 23 Fairhaven Woodland & Water Garden...... 25 Japanese Garden, The...... 7 Burncoose Nurseries & Garden...... 7 Fishbourne Roman Palace...... 34 Ken Caro Gardens...... 8 Burrow Farm Gardens...... 10 Forde Abbey and Gardens...... 13 King John's House & Heritage Centre...... 17 Burton Agnes Hall & Gardens...... 42 Ford Green Hall...... 31 Kiplin Hall...... 43 Burton Constable Hall and Grounds...... 42 Freud Museum London...... 24 Knaresborough Castle & Old Courthouse Museum. 43 Cadhay House...... 11 Fursdon House, Gardens and Tea Room...... 11 Larmer Tree...... 40 Caerhays Castle & Garden...... 7 Gainsborough's House...... 32 Layer Marney Tower...... 15 INDEX

Leighton Buzzard Railway...... 4 Prideaux Place...... 8 Three Choirs Vineyards...... 16 Leighton Hall...... 22 Priest House, The...... 36 Tiverton Castle...... 12 Lewes Castle & Barbican House Museum...... 35 Ramster Gardens...... 34 Ventnor Botanic Garden...... 19 Little Hall...... 32 Raveningham Gardens...... 26 Verulamium Museum...... 18 Lord Leycester Hospital...... 38 Renishaw Hall and Gardens...... 10 Walsingham Abbey Grounds & Shirehall Museum.. 26 Lukesland Gardens...... 12 Restoration House...... 21 Waterperry Gardens...... 29 Lullingstone Castle & the World Garden...... 21 Rockingham Castle...... 22 Weald & Downland Living Museum...... 37 Lydiard Park...... 40 Rode Hall Gardens...... 7 Wells & Walsingham Light Railway, The...... 27 Lydney Park Spring Gardens & Roman Temple Site.16 Roman Painted House...... 21 West Dean Gardens...... 38 Mannington Estate...... 25 Roseland House...... 8 West Somerset Rural Life Museum...... 31 Manor, The...... 5 Rousham House & Garden...... 28 White Scar Cave...... 44 Mapperton House and Gardens...... 14 Royal Pump Room Museum...... 43 Whitmore Hall...... 31 Marlipins Museum...... 36 Rydal Mount & Gardens...... 9 Whittington Court...... 16 Marwood Hill Garden...... 12 Salisbury Museum, The...... 41 Wildwood...... 22 Mary Arden's Farm...... 39 Scampston Walled Garden...... 44 Wildwood Escot...... 13 Merchant’s House, The...... 41 Serles House & Garden...... 14 Wilton House...... 41 Michelham Priory, House & Gardens...... 36 Shakespeare's Birthplace...... 39 Winderwath Gardens...... 10 Middleton Hall...... 39 Shakespeare's New Place...... 40 Wolfeton House...... 14 Milton Lodge Gardens...... 30 Shandy Hall...... 44 Woodchester Mansion...... 16 Milton's Cottage, Museum and Literary Garden...... 5 Sherborne Garden...... 31 Askham Hall pg. 9 New Forest Wildlife Park...... 18 Skipton Castle...... 44 Norton Priory Museum & Gardens...... 6 Somerleyton Hall Gardens...... 33 Otley Hall...... 33 Spa Valley Railway...... 21 Painshill Landscape Garden...... 33 Stansted Park...... 18 Papplewick Pumping Station...... 28 St Mary's House & Gardens...... 37 Parcevall Hall Gardens...... 43 Stody Lodge Gardens...... 26 Pashley Manor Gardens...... 36 Stonor Park...... 29 Pencarrow House & Gardens...... 8 Sudeley Castle and Gardens...... 16 Penjerrick...... 8 Sussex Prairie Garden...... 37 Plantation Garden...... 26 Syon Park...... 24 Powderham Castle...... 12 Tabley House Collection, The...... 7 Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House & Gardens... 21 Thorp Perrow...... 44 Campaign to Protect Rural England, 5-11 Lavington Street, London, SE1 0NZ Tel: 020 7981 2870 Email: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.cpre.org.uk CPRE is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England, number 4302973. Registered charity number1089685. Brantwood pg. 9