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Garden Name: Clearbeck House
Last Modified: 13/01/2011
Garden ID: 0670

pic: 0670_Clearbeck.jpg

Owner: Peter & Bronwen Osborne
Address:
Higher Tatham
Lancaster

Postcode: LA2 8PJ
County: Lancashire

tel: 01524 261029
fax: 
website: www.clearbeckgarden.org.uk
email: clearbeckarts {at} yahoo.co.uk

Features: 
Follies, eg pyramid, Rapunzel's Tower with new floor of pebble mosaic by Maggy Haworth; Temple; Lake & Ponds; wildlife; vegetable garden, flower & shrub borders; garden sculpture.
Featured by Alan Titchmarsh in BBC2 Alan's Garden Secrets Nov 2010

English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
NGS & parties by appointment.
May 29th & 30th; 11am - 5pm
June 19th & 26th; 11am - 5pm

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
May - July

To see: 


National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Comments: May 29th & 30th; 11am - 5pm
June 19th & 26th; 11am - 5pm

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: via booking form

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments: Parties only 

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Adult £3; Child free

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: No
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: No
Teas: Yes
Refreshments: Yes
Picnics: Yes
Dogs allowed: Yes
Only on Lead: Yes
Events: No

Other Facilities:
Artist's studio open in garden. Children's quiz available. Descriptive booklet.


Designer: The Owners - Mr. & Mrs. Osborne
Description of Garden:
Formality near the house merges into wilderness around the lake. Beyond that vistas lead the eye to the Three Peaks of Yorkshire and undulating fields local fields grazed by sheep and cattle. Across the garden are sculptures and follies. Most notable of theses are the pyramid, at the entrance to the symbolic garden of Life & Death, Rapunzels' tower and a temple beside a pool.

Don Quixote on his horse has a prominent position: the Last Tzar on his huge seat and sculptures portraying the Four Seasons maze all add to the fun. The most recent sculpture is a fish carved on the land with CDs as its scales.

The planting is exuberant. The bog garden with bistort, clematis and primulas in Spring leads to borders of cottage garden plants in early summer with roses that climb high into the trees by July. The topiary of yew and box give form to the garden. The sound of the Clearbeck as it passes through the garden adds another dimension.


History: 
Progressively created from a derelict farm with views of the Three Peaks since 1972. Major re-structuring in 1991 with the creation of Lake Setaside. Open 20 years for NGS.

Local Inns: 
Inn at Wray
The Lunesdale, Tunstall

Accomodation: 
in Kirby Lonsdale

Restaurants: 
Bridge House, Wray

Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Three Peaks Area, N. Yorks.
Lancaster.
Kirby Lonsdale