URPoint Details
Admission by timed ticket to castle. Gardens & Grounds: all year, daily 9.30am-sunset. Grounds may be closed at short notice on very busy days due to limited capacity for car parking. Visitor Centre has two permanent exhibitions. Car park shop ranger service wayfaring course licensed restaurant children's adventure playground picnic area and dog walks.
Car parking for disabled and elderly visitors may be set down at the front door of the castle and cars maybe parked nearby special disabled car park at rear of Visitor Centre within a few yards of shop. Three rooms on the ground floor of the Castle are wheelchair accessible a view of the rooms involve climbing a flight of stairs which is steep after the first floor. Ground floor exhibition accessible through shop, second floor exhibition across ramp at rear of shop.
Gardens have easy access to six out of eight compartments. Grounds have easy wheelchair access on Viewpoint Trail, also to Caroline's Garden, picnic area and to much of the ground using hard surface roads.
Fairy tale turrets, gargoyles of fantastic design, superb painted ceilings and the ancient Horn of Leys given in 1323 to Alexander Burnett by King Robert the
- Type:
- Landmark