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Felley Priory tel: 0776 3189771 Area: Nottinghamshire |
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Felley Priory |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||
All year Tue to Fri 09:00-16.00 in addition every 1st and 3rd Sun Feb- Sep |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes with £10 deposit per group, (refunded if cancelled more than 14 days before visit) |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes 17th Apr; 11am - 4pm with Mini-plant Fair |
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Best
Times of Year to Visit: April May, June, July |
To
see: Daffodils Herbaceous borders, medieval garden. Topiary, Rose garden with over 90 varieties of old-fashioned roses |
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| Admission Prices | ||||||
| Adult £3; Child free; Over 60s £2.50. Talk and guide map to garden included. Free entry to RHS members all year. |
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| Onsite Facilities | ||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: No |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: Yes |
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Facilities: Plant fairs for NCCPG on 1st Sundays in June & October. Free parking. Plant Heritage have brought together specialist nurseries offering quality, choice and unusual plants set against the backdrop of one of Nottinghamshire's loveliest gardens. Photography & sketching permitted by arrangement for private use only. Half a mile from junction 27 of the M1, on the A608 |
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| Garden Features | ||||||
| Herbaceous borders backed by high yew hedges. Unusual trees and shrubs. | English Heritage Garden Grade: | |||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| Each part of the garden is planted with different plants and shrubs, many of them unusual. The south- and east-facing borders have the slightly tender plants. The pergolas are mainly covered with roses, vines, clematis and honeysuckle, and the knot gardens are full of architectural box. The borders round the walls have a mixture of small trees and shrubs underplanted mostly by hellebores, hostas, digitalis, meconopsis and geraniums. The rose garden is planted with the old fashioned roses among them Bourbons, moss Roses, Damasks, Albus and Chinensis: and in the borders under the old Elizabethan wall are various agapanthus and some tender shrubs, with the roses. |
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| History of Garden | ||||||
| Felley Priory was founded in 1156 and dissolved by Henry VIII in 1536. Later that century a new smaller house was built, which was added to in 1886. The garden was designed by Mrs. Chaworth-Musters, starting in 1976, when the hedges were planted and the herbaceous borders begun. | ||||||
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| Inns & Pubs: Black Swan, Idridgehay |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Underwood |
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