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Haughley Park tel: 01359 240701 Area: Suffolk |
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| Visitor Information | www.haughleyparkbarn.co.uk -- email: info {at} haughleyparkbarn.co.uk |
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Haughley Park |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||
May - September; Tuesdays only; 2pm - 5.30pm |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes Please give notice |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Group visits can be arranged, usually Mon-Thur |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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Best
Times of Year to Visit: Spring (End of April - June) |
To
see: Bluebells, Magnolia Grandiflora, Azaleas and Rhododendrons. |
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| Admission Prices | ||||||
| Adult £3; Under 16 Free House: £3 adult, no concessions |
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| Onsite Facilities | ||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: No Lunches: No |
Teas:
No Light Refreshment: No Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: Yes On Lead only: Yes Special Events: No |
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| Other
Facilities: Teas, cakes and plant sales on two Bluebell Sundays, 1st and 8th May. "Weird & Wonderful Wood" - Arts & Crafts demos, workshops etc. - 14th &15th May, £2-6 at gate, free parking. Lunch and Tea and Real Ale bar available. Popular Wedding Venue. |
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| Garden Features | ||||||
| House: Grade I, Barn Grade II* There are 20 acres of bluebells, a 1000 year old Oak Tree (40ft girth) and Magnolia Grandiflora of 38ft diameter. Spectacular glass sculptures by international artist, Danny Lane |
English Heritage Garden Grade: I | |||||
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| Haughley Park is an imposing red-brick Jacobean manor-house of 1620, set in gardens, park and woodland. It has an unaltered three-storey east front with 5 gables topped with crow-steps and finials. The North end was rebuilt in Georgian style, in 1820. Nearby 17th century brick and timber barn has been restored as meeting rooms (and, since 2003, a popular Wedding Venue). There are three woodland walks of one and a half to two and a half miles through old broadleaf and pine woodland with bluebells, lily-of-the-valley and camellias (May), rhododendrons and azaleas (June). A walled garden features a rose arbor as well as vegetables and fruit trees. An interesting experiment has been carried out in the West Woods following the devastation of the 1987 hurricane. Some areas were undamaged and have been left, another area which was damaged has been left to recover naturally, another has had its stumps left in place to shoot as coppice timber and several areas were cleared and replanted between 1992 and 1996. |
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| History of Garden | ||||||
| This is part historic layout, and part redesign by Fred Barcock, a well known local horticulturalist, in the 1960's. | ||||||
| Nearby Suffolk Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | ||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Ravenwood Hall Hotel, Rougham |
Restaurants: Old Counting House, Haughley |
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| Inns & Pubs: The Swan, Woolpit Brewers Arms, Rattlesden |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Bury St Edmunds, Lavenham, Stowmarket (Museum of East Anglian Rural Life) |
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