***************************************************************** * Gardens-Guide.com * 250,000 UNIQUE VISITORS in 2011 * 2,000 garden pages viewed per day from March to September 2011 * * 1,000+ Page Views! - One-Quarter of all gardens listed on Gardens-Guide.com * were EACH viewed more than 1,000 times in 2011. * * 500+ Page Views! - HALF of all gardens listed on Gardens-Guide.com were * EACH viewed more than 500 times in 2011. * ***************************************************************** *** UPDATE FORM *** Felley Priory 1) Please COPY the entire FORM BELOW 2) Make any changes in BRIGHT RED -OR- mark changed Section Headers with: *** 3) email the ENTIRE FORM UPDATED backto us: wd (at) armchair-travel (dot) com **************************************************************** **************************************************************** **************************************************************** *** also - SEARCH ENGINE BOOSTING for both YOU and Gardens-Guide.com *** If your webmaster could place a link from your own website directly to your page on Gardens-Guide.com, this will improve it's rankings in Google and other search engines. Please use the following format and info on your own site to link to your page in Gardens-Guide.com: at Gardens-Guide.com http://www.gardens-guide.com The premiere directory of open gardens in the UK and Ireland today Ask your friends and suppliers as well to link to your page in Gardens-Guide as well. Every link we get into your page helps rankings for both of us in search engines. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** **************************************************************** Garden Name: Felley Priory Last Modified: 22-02-2012 Garden ID: 0075 pic: 0075_felleypriory.jpg NOTE: If this says "missing", then please send us a picture for your page which is at least 1000 x 1000 pixels in size. Thanks! Owner: Michelle Upchurch Address: Underwood Nottinghamshire Postcode: NG16 5FJ County: Nottinghamshire tel: 0776 3189771 fax: 01773 580 440 website: email: English Heritage Grade: Opening Times: All year Tue to Fri 09:00-16.00 in addition every 1st and 3rd Sun, February through September Rare plant fairs: Sunday 3rd June and Sunday 7th October from 11am - 4pm 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 National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: Yes Comments: 17th Apr; 11am - 4pm with Mini-plant Fair Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: with £10 deposit per group, (refunded if cancelled more than 14 days before visit) House Open for Viewing: No Comments: Admission Prices: Adult £4; Child free; Over 60s £2.50. Talk and guide map to garden included. Free entry to RHS members all year. Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: No Dogs allowed: No Only on Lead: No Events: Yes Other Facilities: Plant fairs for NCCPG on Sunday 3rd June and Sunday 7th October from 11am - 4pm. 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 Features: Herbaceous borders backed by high yew hedges. Unusual trees and shrubs. Designer: Description of Garden: 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. History: 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. Local Inns: Black Swan, Idridgehay Accomodation: Restaurants: Village/Town/Sightseeing: Underwood