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May 2022
Hartlebury Castle dates back to 855AD when the site was established to defend the area against invasions from Wales. It subsequently became the residence and office for the Bishops of Worcester until 2007 when it was transferred to the Hartlebury Castle Trust. The buildings also house the Worcester County Museum. Bishop Giffard was given permission to [...]
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Our Visit for June: Upton Wold on the Northwick Estate, between Moreton-in-Marsh and Broadway, Gloucestershire An ideal summer visit to this beautiful private garden situated within the Cotswold countryside. When the present owners of the garden arrived at Upton Wold in 1973, there was no garden to be seen, only a holly bush, two ancient yews, [...]
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Visit to Wroxton Abbey and Sulgrave Manor Our Visit for July: Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire and Sulgrave Manor, Oxfordshire Wroxton Abbey Gardens The Jacobean abbey at Wroxton is surrounded by eighteenth-century gardens peppered with mature trees. The formal terraced layout of the gardens near the abbey was devised in 1727 possibly by the Royal Gardener, Henry Wise [...]
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Georgie Guernsey has again graciously invited us to hold the AGM at Packington Hall. As previously this will begin at 2.30 with a lecture at 3 p.m, followed by tea at around 4.15. This year's lecture on the tea gardens at Edgehill will be given by Andrew Baxter, a professional engineer and amateur historian, who having [...]
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In association with The Gardens Trust we are proud to present out first lecture in their 'Unforgettable Gardens' series of lectures. Ali Hodge, a longstanding guide and expert on the Gardens at Upton House. nr. Banbury, will explain their history and importance. Buy tickets
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Imbued with Chinese philosophy of long life and health, the chrysanthemum brings colour and exoticism beloved by artists and gardeners. This talk incorporates culture and myth, artworks and design, with an overview of the development of the chrysanthemum. Twigs Way is a garden historian, writer and researcher. Twigs is fascinated by the past and intrigued by [...]
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Britain is a good place for earth works. The climate, the soils and the topography encourage people to go out and build turf-castles. Since the pre-historic Avebury Ring and the chalk sculpture of the White Horse in Wiltshire, there has been a tradition in the British Isles of sculpting the land into sensuous forms, held firm [...]
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Stephen Wass was commissioned by the National Trust to review the gardens and park at Baddesley Clinton in the light of new LIDAR images they had commissioned. During the course of the this work several new sites were discovered and the whole history of the gardens rewritten. The talk will provide an overview of the images [...]
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Baddesley Clinton April 19th at 10.30 Baddesley Clinton is well known as a moated Manor House whose origins may date back as far as the thirteenth century and was the home of the Ferrers family for some 500 years. The house was saved from ruin by Thomas Walker, who bought the estate in 1940. The [...]
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Castle Bromwich Historic Gardens May 18th at 11.00 Castle Bromwich Gardens are an almost unique survival of an Eighteenth Century garden, once part of the Earl of Bradford’s Estate. The gardens were developed by several generations of the Bridgeman family for a period of some 40 years from 1685 onwards. Remarkably, the layout survived the Nineteenth [...]
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