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Renishaw Hall Gardens tel: 01246 432310 Area: Derbyshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.renishaw-hall.co.uk -- email: info2 {at} renishaw-hall.co.uk |
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Renishaw Hall Gardens |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||
1st Apr - 26th Sept. Thurs - Sun and Bank Holiday Mondays; 10.30am - 4.30pm. Last admission 4pm |
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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 Throughout season |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: April May June July and August |
To
see: Camellias, daffodils Bluebells, rhododendrons Roses Herbaceous and mixed borders |
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| Admission Prices | |||
| Gardens, Museums & Galleries. Adult £6; Children under 12 free; Over 60s £5.20. Parking £1 per car Guided Tour of Gardens often led by David Kesteven - Head Gardener. £6.50 pp with min. of 20 persons. Can be arranged at times to suit. |
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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: No |
Dogs
Allowed: Yes On Lead only: Yes Special Events: Yes |
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| Garden Features | |||
| Gardens, museum, art galleries and parkland. Very extensive calendar of events including Fanfare for Spring in Feb, Easter Fun Day, Bluebell Fortnight, Music in the Garden, Walk & Dine, Tour & Dine, Plant Fairs, Classic Cars and many others right through the season. Please see their website for details. New for 2010 - view the newly arranged borders inspired through collaboration with famous garden designer Anthony Noel and Renishaw's head gardener David Kesteven. The Children's Fairytale Garden with statues, storytelling corners, maze and living willow tunnel. Ancient and modern statues. 2010 SPECIAL EXHIBITION - The Collections of Sir Osbert Sitwell - Champion for the Arts - many items unseen including Picasso, Cecil Beaton, Rex Whistler and Wyndham Lewis. |
English Heritage Garden Grade: II* | ||
| National Collection: Yuccas | |||
| Description of Garden | Designer:
Sir George Sitwell |
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| Renishaw, halfway between Sheffield and Chesterfield, is an oasis of beauty and the arts in an area otherwise dominated by industry and mining. The gardens at Renishaw Hall are among the most important Italianate gardens in the country. The principles of Italian gardening include garden rooms, views and the sight and sound of still and moving water. The eight acres of garden are divided into 12 smaller rooms by yew hedges, each with its own character. There are three rose gardens containing many historic varieties underplanted with clematis, peonies, lilies and geraniums and interplanted with unusual flowering shrubs. More than 1,000 roses flower in the summer, scenting the air and blooming beside the many classical Italian statues - this has led some to call this the most romantic garden in England. Deep lush herbaceous borders with carefully-chosen colour themes flank the middle lawn which leads on to the White Garden and the Ballroom Garden where the flowers are blue, yellow and white and Anthony Noel has added focus and drama to the planting. There is also a secret garden with a pocket handkerchief tree and an Indian bean tree. The visitor must also see Bottom Terrace which is a sheltered south facing border some 200m long, in a perfect position to grow some rare and tender shrubs and flowers in almost jungle-like profusion. This is in complete contrast to the fishpond garden, opposite where the geometric design of water, yew, and grass is unrelieved by any flower planting. To either side of the formal gardens are walks in a more natural landscape. Lady Ida's Walk takes in fantastic yew trees and offers long views across the beautiful Derbyshire countryside. On the other side of the garden there is a woodland walk that leads to Renishaw's three lakes, two contemporary with the garden (c1890), and the other dug out in the winter of 2000. There are ponds in the formal gardens, the central one reflecting its tall spray of water, and flanked by classical statues gazing out over the view. |
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| History of Garden | |||
| The formal garden was laid out in 1895 by Sir George Sitwell (1860 - 1943) in the classical Italianate style. In 1909 he published 'On the Making of Gardens', which attacks Augustan formalism in garden design and the romantic landscape. It has been described as 'an argument for imaginative thought in garden planning'. He was ambitious in the changes he made, and planned to make, around the estate. His eldest son Osbert looked on his energetic activities with something of a jaundiced eye: 'He abolished small hills, created lakes and particularly liked to alter the levels at which full grown trees were standing. Two old yew trees in front of the dining-room window at Renishaw, were regularly heightened and lowered; a process which I believe could have been shown to chart, like a thermometer, the temperature of his mood'. | |||
| Nearby Derbyshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Sitwell Arms - Renishaw |
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| Inns & Pubs: Mossbrook - Eckington |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Renishaw / Eckington 2 miles Chesterfield 6 miles (trains to London in less than two hours) |
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