***************************************************************** * 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 *** Haughley Park 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: Haughley Park Last Modified: 11-01-2012 Garden ID: 0125 pic: 0125_haughley.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: Mr R J Williams Address: Stowmarket Postcode: IP14 3JY County: Suffolk tel: 01359 240701 fax: website: www.haughleyparkbarn.co.uk email: info //at// haughleyparkbarn.co.uk English Heritage Grade: I Opening Times: May - September; Tuesdays only; 2pm - 5.30pm Also for 2011: 1st May and 8th May "Bluebell Sundays". 2pm - 5.30pm Best Times of Year to Visit: Spring (End of April - June) To see: Bluebells, Magnolia Grandiflora, Azaleas and Rhododendrons. National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: No Comments: Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: Please give notice Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: Group visits can be arranged, usually Mon-Thur House Open for Viewing: Yes Comments: Group Visits only Admission Prices: Adult £3; Under 16 Free House: £3 adult, no concessions Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: No Plants for Sale: No Lunches: No Teas: No Refreshments: No Picnics: Yes Dogs allowed: Yes Only on Lead: Yes Events: No 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. 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 Designer: Description of Garden: 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. History: This is part historic layout, and part redesign by Fred Barcock, a well known local horticulturalist, in the 1960's. Local Inns: The Swan, Woolpit Brewers Arms, Rattlesden Accomodation: Ravenwood Hall Hotel, Rougham Restaurants: Old Counting House, Haughley Village/Town/Sightseeing: Bury St Edmunds, Lavenham, Stowmarket (Museum of East Anglian Rural Life)