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27 May: Island Hall - Open Garden for NGS

Published: 9th May 2012 15:47

Event:  Island Hall - Open Garden for NGS
Date:  Sunday 27 May

Time:  11-5
Location:  Island Hall, Godmanchester Cambridgeshire PE29 2BA
Description:  3-acre grounds. Mid C18 mansion (not open). Tranquil riverside setting with mature trees. Chinese bridge over Saxon mill race to an embowered island with wild flowers. Garden restored in 1983 to mid C18 formal design, with box hedging, clipped hornbeams, parterres, topiary and good vistas over borrowed landscape, punctuated with C18 wrought iron and stone urns. The ornamental island has been replanted with Princeton elms (ulmus americana)
Cost:  Admission £4, Children free
Web:  www.ngs.org.uk/

 

 

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