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Antony tel: 01752 812191 Area: Cornwall |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk/antony -- email: antony {at} nationaltrust.org.uk |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||
Garden: 29th Mar - 26th May; Tues - Thur; 11am - 5pm |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: no |
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| Admission Prices | ||||||
| Standard Admission House and garden: adult £7.90, child £5, family £20.80, family (1 adult) £12.90. Garden only: adult £4, child £2. Joint garden only: adult £8. Woodland Garden, not National Trust (Standard Admission)*: £5, child free. Woodland Garden season ticket: £25. *Members free only on days when house is open |
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| Onsite Facilities | ||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: No Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: No |
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| Garden Features | ||||||
| Superb early 18th-century mansion set in parkland and fine gardens; Home of the Carew Pole family for 600 years; Landscaped by renowned Georgian garden designer, Humphrey Repton; Lots of walks in the surrounding woods; Visit the National Collection of day lilies | English Heritage Garden Grade: II | |||||
| National Collection: hemerocallis and Camellia japonica | ||||||
| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| Twenty-eight acres of gardens in a beautiful natural setting surround one of the finest 18th century houses in Britain. Both garden and house being now owned by the National Trust, although the adjacent woodland gardens of around another 60 acres belong to the family trust, and are also open to the public. In this landscape we have the contrast between the relatively formal sweeping lawns, mature trees, avenues of beautiful magnolias and high yew hedges spreading out from the house and the romantic idyll of the extensive woodlands full of wildflowers and studded with rhododendrons, Asiatic magnolias and a spectacular bank of pink, red and white camellias. Near the house are found tender climbing plants, assorted peaches and a collection of daylilies assembled by Lady Cynthia Carew-Pole in the 1970s. | ||||||
| History of Garden | ||||||
| The estate has been the home since the fifteenth century of the Carew family, the house being originally built in 1724 for Sir William Carew. The garden, and particularly its landscaping, was greatly influenced by Humphry Repton, who was consulted by Reginald Pole-Carew in 1792, though Reginald had begun the extensive planting of ornamental trees several years before. The terrace, Holm Oaks and circular dovecote though date from some 30 years earlier. Generations of the family extended the garden in the Victorian and Edwardian eras by creating formal walks, terraces and gardens. General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew contributed the magnificent Mandalay Bell which he brought back as booty from the Second Burmese War in 1886. This tradition of enhancing the garden was continued by the late Sir John Carew-Pole, who planted the Japanese garden and woodlands, and by Mrs. Richard Carew-Pole, the wife of the present head of the family, who began the enclosed knot summer garden in 1983. Sir Richard, who is now the President of the Royal Horticultural Society, recently erected a standing stone of Cornish granite on top of Jupiter Hill in memory of his parents. | ||||||
| Nearby Cornwall Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | ||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Tregondale Farm, Menheniot, Liskeard |
Restaurants: Chez Nous, Plymouth Tanners, Plymouth |
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| Inns & Pubs: Ye Olde Plough House Inn, Duloe, (S. of Liskeard) |
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