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Plas Newydd tel: 01248-714795 Area: Wales |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-plasnewydd -- email: plasnewydd {at} nationaltrust.org.uk |
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Plas Newydd |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||
Garden, tea room & shop: 6th Mar - 14th Mar; Sat & Sun; 11am - 5.30pm |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: Spring |
To
see: Rhododendrons |
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| Admission Prices | |||
| House & Garden: Adult £7.80, child £3.90, family £19.50. Garden only: £5.80, child £2.90 |
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| Onsite Facilities | |||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: No |
| Other
Facilities: Adventure Play Trail. Boat trips along Menai Straits (40 mins. durationat additional cost). Dogs only allowed in picnic area and car park. Complimentary minibus shuttle service from car park to house & garden. Picnic area Coffee shop with second-hand bookshop. |
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| Garden Features | |||
| Home of the Marquess of Anglesey, with spectacular views of Snowdonia; One of the UK's finest mansion house settings; The largest collection of Rex Whistler works; Military museum with relics from the battle of Waterloo; Large gardens, woodland walks and a marine walk along the Menai Straits | English Heritage Garden Grade: | ||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Humphry Repton |
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| Set in a spectacular position above the Menai Straits with Robert Stephenson's railway bridge on one hand and the mountains of Snowdonia lining the southern horizon, Plas Newydd enjoys a superb scenic backdrop to the delights of the garden. It enjoys a very mild climate due to the proximity of the Gulf Stream and thus a wealth of plants and trees rarely found in the British Isles. To the west of the house in the area known as the 'West Indies', lawns are bordered and broken by azaleas, hydrangeas, magnolia and scarlet embothrium, with hoherias and eucryphias flowering just after midsummer. A dell, created from a small quarry, holds camellias, cherries, pieris and some rare trees. There is an arboretum known as 'Australasia' which was planted in 1981 and contains fast-growing trees and shrubs from the Southern Hemisphere. Finally, after enjoying the terraces near the house which have been replanted in recent years, the visitor can, in May, explore the rhododendron wood full of wild and exotic varieties. |
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| History of Garden | |||
| The house was built in the late 18th century to a design by James Wyatt for Henry, Earl of Uxbridge, who engaged Humphry Repton, the leading landscape designer of the period, to produce one of his famous "Red Books" containing his proposals; dated 1798-9, this survives. Lord Uxbridge's son, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, who famously commanded the cavalry at Waterloo, began an extensive programme of tree planting in the years following the great victory and this was continued by the 6th Marquess in the 1920s and '30s and by the present Marquess in the 1950s. He received lorry-loads of 'thinnings' of rhododendron species from Bodnant as a wedding present in 1948-50 from the 2nd Lord Aberconway. The National Trust has continued the programme of planting and embellishment of the garden. | |||
| Nearby Wales Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||
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| Inns & Pubs: Ye Olde Bulls Head, Beaumaris Ship Inn, Red Wharf Bay |
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