The Friends

of Czech Heritage Formerly The Friends of Czech Historic Buildings, Gardens and Parks REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER 1127919 www.czechfriends.net

Painshill Landscape Garden Garden Visit for The Friends - Guided Tour by Michael Symes, garden historian near Cobham, , KT11 1JE The Homewood - Guided Tour near , Surrey Painshill is a beautiful 18th-Century landscape

garden. The 158-acre wonderland has something for The Homewood is a sizeable country villa, designed everyone. Discover mystical follies, including the and lived in by the architect Patrick Gwynne. He restored crystal grotto, historic planting, North created the house for his family - his father, mother, American trees and shrubs, and spectacular views sister, and himself - and completed it in the early over lakes to the Turkish tent and over Surrey. summer of 1938. He died in 2003 and the house and

Location: - Map 19:B9, OS Ref TQ 10406 60269. M25/J10/A3 substantial garden were bequeathed to the National to London. West of Cobham on A245. Signposted. Trust, which now lets the property.

th Location: the Homewood can be visited only by means of a Friday 18 September 2015 minibus and pre-booked places from Claremont Landscape starting at 10.30am in the café of Painshill Landscape Garden Garden, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey KT10 9JG.

Please ensure that your booking reaches us by 31st August 2015 Online booking: www.czechfriends.net

Name______I would like __ticket/s at £20 each for NT members/ £30 for non-NT members, total £____ Address______(ticket includes a donation to The Friends) ______Please send payment with an S.A.E. to: Michael De Val, 12 Oakley Road, Chinnor, Oxon OX39 Telephone______4HB, making your cheque payable to

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Images: clockwise from top left, ©Anthony McCallum, , ©Amandajm, ©Anthony Name of guest______McCallum, ©Stuart Cox x 2, ©Dennis Gilbert Garden Visit 18/09/2015