***************************************************************** * 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 *** Mapperton Gardens 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: Mapperton Gardens Last Modified: 15-03-2012 Garden ID: 0140 pic: 0140_Mapperton.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: The Earl and Countess of Sandwich Address: Mapperton Postcode: DT8 3NR County: Dorset tel: 01308 862645 fax: 01308 861082 website: www.mapperton.com email: office //at// mapperton.com English Heritage Grade: II* Opening Times: 1st Apr - 31st Oct; Daily except Sats; 11am - 5pm Best Times of Year to Visit: To see: National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: No Comments: Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: Group Tours available. House Open for Viewing: Yes Comments: 9th Jul - 10th Aug; Weekdays and Bank Holiday Mons. 4th June & 27th Aug; 2pm - 4.30pm, last admissions 4pm Admission Prices: Adult Garden £5, House £4.50; Child (Under 18) Garden £2.50, House £2.50; Under 5s Free. House & Garden combined: £9pp for groups of 20+ Groups of 20+ £4.50pp Accompanied garden tours £2pp extra Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: No Dogs allowed: No Only on Lead: No Events: Yes Other Facilities: Lavatories - Wheelchair disabled access. Wheelchairs have partial access to garden. Licensed cafe open daily except Saturdays 11am to 5pm for lunches & teas. Features: Designer: Mrs Labouchere Description of Garden: Mapperton Gardens is a unique valley garden in West Dorset, in an area of outstanding natural beauty. The gardens surround the Jacobean manor house, stable blocks, dovecote and All Saints Church. Below the Orangery and croquet lawn is an Italianate formal garden with fountains, topiary, grottoes, ponds and stone statuary, laid out in the 1920s. Beyond this is a summer house overlooking two fish ponds, leading to the Wild Garden. History: Mapperton is one of the oldest Dorset manors and dates back to Saxon times. At the time of the Domesday Book it belonged to William de Moion, Sheriff of Somerset, and earned him an income of 70 shillings a year. After him the manor passed by descent to four families - Bretts, Morgans, Brodrepps and Comptons - until it was sold in 1919 to Mrs Labouchere, who built the formal garden in her husband's memory. After her death in 1955, Mapperton was bought by Victor Montagu, then MP for South Dorset, whose family has had ties with Dorset for over 200 years. When he died in 1995, it passed to his son and is now the family house of the Earl and Countess of Sandwich. The Tudor house was built by Robert Morgan, but was restyled in the 1660s by Richard Brodrepp who also added the stable blocks and pigeoncote. It was a later Richard Brodrepp, a county magistrate, who gave the north wing a classical front, added balustrades and put in a Georgian staircase hall. Local Inns: Cotley Inn, Wambrook Accomodation: Bridge House Hotel, Beaminster Restaurants: Ann Day Gallery, Beaminster The Bridge House Hotel, Beaminster Wild Garlic, Beaminster Village/Town/Sightseeing: Beaminster Bridport