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The Manor House tel: 01234 822064 Area: Bedfordshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.kathybrownsgarden.homestead.com -- email: kathy_brown {at} tinyworld.co.uk |
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The Manor House |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||
2nd & 23rd May; 12noon - 5pm |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes or groups of 15+ Personal Tour of garden with Kathy and an Edible Flower Demonstration can be arranged. |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes Evening opening with wine and music: 16th June; 6pm - 9pm |
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| Admission Prices | ||||||
| Adult £4.50, Child free. Guided 45 min. tour by Kathy Brown for 10 - 25 people - extra charge £1 pp. Book in advance. Group (15 people) min. cost £67.50 |
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| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: No Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: Yes On Lead only: Yes Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: NGS evening June 16th, others see website |
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
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| It is a wonderful collection of different rooms including Cottage Garden, Wisteria Walk, 4 Naturalistic borders, Wild Flower meadow, Formal Garden, Major Container Displays, with over 40 climbing and Rambling Roses, and over 100 late flowering Clematis making this a wonderful garden to visit in June and July; also very distinctive Art inspired Gardens with Monet, Mondrian, Rothko, Hokusai, Hepworth and Kandinsky all represented. | ||||||
| History of Garden | ||||||
| The Manor Farm House was rebuilt by architect, Henry Clutton for the Duke of Bedford on the site of the Old Hospitium dating back to the 13th Century where Pilgrims came to visit the Holy Well beneath the Church to help with eye ailments. John Bunyan lived nearby and wrote The Pilgrims Progress which many think is connected directly to Stevington through the Old Cross in the centre of the Village and the Holy Well/Spring/Sepulchre beneath the Church and indeed the Old Hospitium. Kathy walked on Ramblings BBC Radio 4 with Clare Balding discussing the literary landscape of The Pilgrims Progress in and about Stevington. | ||||||
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| Inns & Pubs: The Royal George, Stevington, The Bedford Arms, Oakley The Bedford Arms, Souldrop. |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Excellent walks to see the Windmill; or through the meadows besides the River Ouse from Stevington to Pavenham. The Bunyan Museum, Bedford; The Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney. |
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