THE 2018 MEMBERS GUIDE TO ATTRACTIONS, GARDENS, 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, Cumbria. 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 garden 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 Groombridge Place Gardens & Brodgale Collection in Kent and West Dean Gardens in Sussex. 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 England cpre.org.uk – It is always great to hear about your visit. 5-11 Lavington Street, London, 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 Lincolnshire ..............................23 • The discount agreed is for one discount per membership card (physical card only). Bedfordshire .............................. 4 London ....................................24 • The number of members in a household membership does not increase the number of discounts available. Buckinghamshire......................... 4 Norfolk ....................................25 • Lone members visiting a property that offers a 2 for 1 Cambridgeshire .......................... 5 discount are not entitled to 50% reduction on their single Northamptonshire ......................27 ticket instead. • The discounts cannot be used for special event days. Cheshire ................................... 5 Northumberland ........................27 • Please remember to take your membership card and this Cornwall ................................... 7 Nottinghamshire ........................28 guide with you when you visit. Cumbria .................................... 9 Oxfordshire ..............................28 Glastonbury Abbey pg. 30 Derbyshire ...............................10 Rutland ....................................29 Devon .....................................10 Shropshire ................................30 Dorset .....................................13 Somerset .................................30 Durham ...................................14 Staffordshire .............................31 Essex ......................................15 Suffolk .....................................32 Gloucestershire .........................15 Surrey .....................................33 Hampshire ................................17 Hertfordshire ..........................18 Sussex .....................................34 Isle of Wight .............................19 Warwickshire ............................38 Kent .......................................19 Wiltshire ..................................40 Lancashire ................................22 Worcestershire ..........................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, Bristol, 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]