Introduction
The west garden contains a large Indian Bean Tree, Copper Beech and a Manna Ash and a particularly large common box with a sarsen stone behind it. The Dutch garden contains beds of spring flowers and Anenome Blanda arranged amidst summer flowering fuchsias surrounded by a rectangular shaped box hedge.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
Telephone
0844 800 1895Website
http://www.nationaltrust.org.ukAccess contact details
The gardens are open daily from 10.30 between February and October, with more restricted opening in the winter months.
Directions
Owners
The National Trust
Heelis, Kemble Drive, Swindon, SN2 2NA
- Features & Designations
Features
- Terrace
- Description: A gravel terrace runs the length of the north front, backed by a clipped yew hedge.
- Steps
- Description: A flight of stone steps.
- Walk
- Description: A central gravel walk, flanked by lawns cut into a formal parterre using box-edged borders filled with roses and clipped yews.
- Clairvoie
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- Walk
- Description: A cross-walk runs the length of the boundary and is edged by clipped yews.
- Path
- Description: Steps lead down from the west front to a straight gravel path bordered by roses and mixed shrubs.
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- Ha-ha
- Description: A ha-ha bordering the garden.
- Serpentine Walk
- Description: A serpentine walk which leads to the walled garden.
- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Survival
Extant
Open to the public
Yes
Civil Parish
Wimpole
- Related Documents
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CLS 1/1203
A Survey of the Landscape
John Phibbs - 1979
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CLS 1/1204
Wimpole Park, Cambridgeshire - Survey
John Phibbs - 1980
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CLS 1/1205
English Heritage - 2001
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CLS 1/275/1
Conservation Plan - Digital copy
Colvin and Moggridge - 2006
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CLS 1/1040
Gervase Jackson-Stops - 1979
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CLS 1/1203