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Dogs on leads in car park and surrounding footpaths only. Garden is largely accessible. Shop has easy access from car park. Restaurant accessible thick handled cutlery available. Granite walls, etc may be touched scented plants.
There are some spectacular walks through surrounding 600-acre estate. Twelve acres of garden created by Julius Drewe, the owner, and Edwin Lutyens, his architect in the 1920s. Lutyens designed a formal garden enclosed by yew hedges north of the drive. The main garden has a series of formal terraces, the first contains rectangular rose beds of modern cultivars to withstand the weather in these bleak surroundings. At the corners of the first terrace are arbours of Parrotia persica surrounded yew hedges linked by serpentine path of Indian pattern and herbaceous borders. Steps lead to the second terrace of borders and centre beds containing a variety of herbs. More steps lead to the shrub borders designed by George Dillistone in 1927. A sloping path to the huge circular lawn surrounded by tall yew hedge, originally laid for tennis but now used for croquet. Below, steps lead to the rhododendrons dell then to Chapel Garden and House.
There are some spectacular walks through surrounding 600-acre estate. Twelve acres of garden created by Julius Drewe, the owner, and Edwin Lutyens, his architect in the 1920s. Lutyens designed a formal garden enclosed by yew hedges north of the drive. The main garden has a series of formal terraces, the first contains rectangular rose beds of modern cultivars to withstand the weather in these bleak surroundings. At the corners of the first terrace are arbours of Parrotia persica surrounded yew hedges linked by serpentine path of Indian pattern and herbaceous borders. Steps lead to the second terrace of borders and centre beds containing a variety of herbs. More steps lead to the shrub borders designed by George Dillistone in 1927. A sloping path to the huge circular lawn surrounded by tall yew hedge, originally laid for tennis but now used for croquet. Below, steps lead to the rhododendrons dell then to Chapel Garden and House.
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