Mapperton House & Gardens Tuesday 24th July

Tuesday 24th July
Mapperton House & Gardens
Departs 8.00am
£25.00 members £28.00 non-members

Mapperton Gardens is a romantic garden deep into a Dorset combe
among tumbling hills and unspoiled countryside. The gardens
descend from the croquet lawn, through the formal topiary down to
the wild garden.

The manor house with its church, stable block, coach
house, dovecote and courtyard is a glorious harmony of golden
sandstone. The house, Elizabethan in origin, enlarged in the late1660s
is a marvellous example of a West Country manor house overlooking
the terraced gardens, grass banks and wooded hill which descend
steeply to the south.

Pevsner’s Dorset guide says “there can hardly
be a more enchanting manorial group than Mapperton”
It is now the home of the Earl and Countess of Sandwich, Mapperton
continues to be a family house and harks back to the restoration of
Charles ll when the first Earl of Sandwich brought the King back
from Holland.

Time permitting dropping down to Lyme Regis for free time.

* Please give garden club number in the comments box to ensure that you receive your members discount*
*Please park in the overflow car park when you arrive in the morning*

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