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Bradenham Hall tel: 01362 687243 Area: Norfolk |
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| Visitor Information | www.bradenhamhall.co.uk -- email: info {at} bradenhamhall.co.uk |
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Bradenham Hall |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||
3rd Sun in April |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes 3rd Sunday in April, 4th Sundays in July & Sept |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: April June, July |
To
see: Daffodils / Trees Roses / Herbaceous |
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| Admission Prices | |||
| Adult £4; Child free | |||
| Onsite Facilities | |||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: No Lunches: No |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: No |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: No |
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Facilities: |
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| Garden Features | |||
| Amazing arboretum of over 800 different trees, all labelled. | English Heritage Garden Grade: | ||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
The owners |
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| The 27-acre gardens are situated on one of Norfolk's few high points and although the position affords a lovely view to the south over surrounding farmland, the site is consequently very windy. Therefore the owners have protected the long herbaceous borders, the shrubs and the Philosophers' Walk by stout yew hedges. These also shelter the paved garden, a large old fashioned rose garden and other borders containing a plantsman's collection. On the house and garden walls are grown a wide range of shrubs, climbers and fruit. There is a walled kitchen garden, an attractive old barn and the millennium aviary. The arboretum, which was only started in 1955, has many rare and interesting specimens, underplanted with many types of naturalised daffodils. | |||
| History of Garden | |||
| Bradenham Hall is an early Georgian house, more in the Queen Anne Style, facing almost due south. Built in about 1740, it had been owned principally by the Smyth, Haggard and Penrose families until 1951, when the Allhusens bought it, together with 1500 acres of surrounding land and woods. In the 1940's it was occupied by various army units, one of which left a legacy of numerous heaps of empty tins and literally thousands of broken glass medicine bottles in many parts of the garden, particularly on the west side. Several dozen concrete Nissen hut foundations were an unwanted additional burden. A number of local people thought that the house could never be properly renovated and lived in again. A start was made by taking practically the whole roof off. Other than the disused and weed-ridden walled garden and courtyard, there was no garden extant. There were also about 200 wasp and hornet nests to be removed. |
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| Nearby Norfolk Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: The George, Dereham |
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| Inns & Pubs: Ostrich Inn, Castle Acre George & Dragon, Newton |
Villages / Towns
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  - Norfolk |
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