Gardens in Yorkshire
This wonderful garden is the creation of Major Percy Marlborough Stewart, a second cousin of Sir Winston Churchill. Stewart bought the Burnby Hall estate on the edge of Pocklington in 1904, and for the next 58 years, he devoted his energies to creating a fabulous garden of exceptional beauty, based around two lakes which feature the national collection of hardy water lilies. This is one of the largest collections in Europe where the lilies can be seen in a natural habitat.
33 The Balk, Pocklington, Yorkshire, England, YO42 2QF
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Garden: A "giant gameboard" motif is the theme for a number of the gardens of Burton Agnes Hall; you will also find a jungle garden with broad-leaved plants, fruit and potager areas, a maze, and colour-themed gardens. National collection of campanulas.
Burton Agnes, Driffield, Yorkshire, England, YO25 4NB
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Heritage Highlight: Magnificent Long Gallery with Elizabethan plasterwork
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Garden: Gardens on a grand scale set off the baroque splendour of Castle Howard. The park covers 1000 acres, and is encrusted with architecture: the Mauopleum, the Temple of the Four Winds and the New River Bridge; restored waterworks. And of course a walled garden with collections of old and modern roses. Ray Wood shelters rare trees, shrubs, and fine rhododendrons and azaleas.
Castle Howard, York, Yorkshire, England, YO60 7DA
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Heritage Highlight: The extraordinary dome is an architectural wonder
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A lovely romantic garden set in beautiful parkland surrounding a historic 18th-century house near Leyburn. The gardens are situated at the entrance to scenic Wensleydale, in the Yorkshire Dales. The house, designed by John Carr and built from 1760-1768, is not generally open to the public, but the extensive gardens are regularly open from spring to autumn.
Leyburn, Yorkshire, England, DL8 5LJ
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Duncombe Park is a superb 18th-century landscape garden surrounding an Italianate Baroque house. The gardens were designed by Sir John Vanbrugh with later contributions by William Robinson, and boast beautiful neo-classical temples, terrace walks, clipped yew hedges, and profusions of flowers.
Helmsley, Yorkshire, England, YO62 5EB
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Heritage Highlight: A very early example of an English landscape garden, to a design by Vanbrugh
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11 acres of gardens surround the Grade II listed 17th-century Goldsborough Hall (not open to the public), laid out in a formal style in the 1750s by Richard Woods. Princess Mary made her home here in the 1920s and 30s, and the house and grounds owe much of their present aura to her.
Goldsborough Hall, Church Street, Goldsborough, Yorkshire, England, HG5 8NR
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Heritage Highlight: Lime Tree Walk planted by royalty
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Hackfall Woods is a beautiful 18th-century woodland garden in picturesque style, with romantic follies, grottos, and water features carefully placed around a deeply wooded ravine on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Hackfall was laid out by William Aislabie, whose father designed the water gardens at Studley Royal.
Masham, Yorkshire, England, HG4 3DE
Attraction Type: Garden - Woodland
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Garden: Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was responsible for influencing the form of the landscaped grounds of Harwood House; there is much to enjoy, from the formal parterre and archery border near the house, to the rock garden and walled garden which fringe the lake. The Bird Garden houses over a hundred species of threatened and exotic birds.
Harewood, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, LS17 9LG
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Helmsley Walled Garden was established in 1758 to provide food for the Feversham family of Duncombe Park. It was rescued from decay in the 1980s and transformed into one of the loveliest gardens in Britain, a haven of peace and a place to relax and enjoy a mix of herbaceous borders, clematis garden, and colour-themed garden areas.
Cleveland Way, Helmsley, Yorkshire, England, YO62 5AH
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Heritage Highlight: Established in 1758
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Museum Gardens was created in the 1830s from the former grounds of St Mary's Abbey. The abbey ruins are a prominent garden feature, as is the Multangular Tower, a 4th-century tower that guarded the Roman fort of Eboracum. The gardens surround the Yorkshire Museum, one of the oldest purpose-built museums in England.
Museum Street, York, Yorkshire, England, YO1 7FR
Attraction Type: Garden - Park
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Heritage Highlight: Ruins of St Mary's Abbey
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