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Event: Mapperton House & Gardens Location: BEAMINSTER Event type: other |
Date posted: 27/06/2007 Website: Visit Website Directions: Click for map |
Details: FROM : 01/03/2007 TO : 31/10/2007 Mapperton Gardens is a romantic valley garden deep into a lost Dorset combe among tumbling hills and unspoilt countryside. The gardens descend from the great lawn, through the formal topiary down to the valley garden. The manor house with its church,stable block, coach house, dovecote and courtyard is essentially a part of its countryside, a glorious harmony of golden sandstone. Pevsner's Dorset guide reckons "there can hardly be a more enchanting manorial group than Mapperton." The house, Elizabethan in origin, enlarged in the late 1670s, is a marvellous example of a West Country manor that fits in with its surroundings and almost grows with them. Now the home of the Earl and Countess of Sandwich, Mapperton continues to be a family house and harks back to the restoration of Charles II when the first Earl of Sandwich brought the King back from Holland. Entry Fee : Adult £ 4.00 , Children £ 2.00 Under 5s free |
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