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Garden Name: Stowe Landscape Gardens
Last Modified: 14/01/2011
Garden ID: 0133

pic: 0133_Stowe.jpg

Owner: National Trust
Address:
Buckingham


Postcode: MK18 5EH
County: Buckinghamshire

tel: 01280 822850
fax: 01280 822437
website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-stowegardens
email: stowegarden {at} nationaltrust.org.uk

Features: 
Explore more than 40 monuments, temples and secret corners, ornamental lakes, wooded valleys and spectacular views; Miles of walks and trails through the gardens and surrounding parkland

English Heritage Grade:
I

Opening Times:
2nd Jan - 27th Feb, Sat & Sun, 10:30am - 4pm
2nd Mar - 30th Oct , Wed - Sun, 10:30am - 5:30pm
5th Nov - 23rd Dec, Sat & Sun, 10:30am - 4pm
Parkland: All year, dawn - dusk, Sun - Sat
Shop only - Christmas Opening: 9th Nov - 23rd Dec; Wed - Fri; 11am - 3pm
Gardens closed Sat 28th May
Open Bank Holiday Mondays and Monday and Tuesday during half-terms. Last entry 90 minutes before closing or dusk if earlier.

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National Garden Scheme days: No
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Parties / Coaches: Yes 
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Viewing by Appointment: Yes
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House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: Infoline 01280-818166. (Not NT)

Admission Prices:
Gift Aid Admission (Standard Admission prices in brackets): 
adult £8.10 (£7.30), child £4.10 (£3.70), family £20.20 (£18.30).
House and house tours: telephone infoline for details. 
Charge including members. House (not National Trust) admission payable at National Trust reception

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

Other Facilities:
Self drive 2 seater powered wheelchair available (pre-book)
Braille and tape guide


Designer: Vanburgh, Bridgeman, Kent, Capability Brown
Description of Garden:
One of the finest Georgian landscape gardens extending over 400 acres, with valleys and vistas, lakes and rivers and more than 30 temples and monuments designed by many of the leading architects of the 18th century. The newly restored 250-acre Deer Park has recently opened and restoration continues in other areas of the Park and gardens. The one and a half mile avenue leading from the Buckingham entrance to the triumphal Corinthian arch gives just a taste of the many treasures to be explored. The Trust's excellent guide will help to explain the symbolism and allegorical nature of many of the landscape's features and the monuments.


History: 
Originally the concept of the first owner Viscount Cobham, the gardens at Stowe were continually extended and enhanced by many famous architects and designers, not least Capability Brown, who was employed as Head Gardener there from 1741, though Charles Bridgeman had been responsible for the original landscape design. The vast mansion has been a school since 1923 and the gardens have been in the hands of the National Trust since 1989, when a major programme of restoration and re-constitution began, with spectacular results.

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