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making an appointment to see at other times than its
special open days.
The owner, Eve Hessey, has made a garden of reflection
depicting her life both in New Zealand and in this country.
She has an ornamental vegetable garden with trained fruit
trees, the beds within scented lavender, rosemary and box.
There is a Mediterranean garden, a labyrinth, a meadow and
an orchard – plenty to see within an acre of garden.
Location: Saltford Farm Barn, Saltford, BS31 3JS. 6 miles W
of Bath, on the A4 between Bath and Bristol. Saltford Farm
is at the Bath end of the village. Parking arrangements will
be signed, as the busy A4 is unsuitable for parking.
Open: Sunday 28th March 2pm – 5pm. Visitors also
welcome by appointment.
Admission: £3, children free. Home made teas, crafts.
Plants for sale. No dogs. Gravel paths make for limited
wheelchair access in places.
Telephone: 01225 873380
Fairfield, near Stogursey
The Elizabethan manor, the home of Sir Michael and
Lady Gass, has a bonus for visitors to the gardens – from
the grounds they can look across to fine views of the
Quantocks and the sea.
The house is in a mixture of medieval and Elizabethan
styles, and has been in the same family, the Acland-Hoods,
for more than 800 years. Lady Gass is the Lord Lieutenant
of Somerset.
Open for the NGS on Sunday 28th March, Fairfield’s
woodland garden has fine trees, shrubs and masses of
At Easter, visitors to the mainly Elizabethan manor house Wayford Manor,
spring bulbs. There is also a paved maze.
will see a spectacular display of spring bulbs, cyclamen, magnolias, and
fine trees coming into leaf
Location: Fairfield, near Stogursey, TA5 1PU. 7 miles
E of Williton, 11 miles W of Bridgwater. From the A39
Bridgwater to Minehead road turn N and find the garden
And over Easter….
one and a half miles W of Stogursey on the Stringston
Wayford Manor, near Crewkerne is open over the Easter
Road. No coaches.
weekend, on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, 4th and
Open: Sunday 28th March 2pm – 5pm.
5th April. This lovely mainly Elizabethan manor house was
Admission: £3.50, children free.
redesigned by the Edwardian architect/designer Harold Peto
in 1902 for his sister who lived there at the time.
It is a garden of elegant balustraded terraces and an
Italianate loggia, yew hedges and topiary, with steps
leading down past spring-fed ponds to a mixture of mature
and new plantings. At Easter visitors will see spring bulbs,
cyclamen, magnolias, and fine trees coming into leaf.
Later in the season there are giant echiums, gunnera over
the lower ponds, candelabra primulas and arum lilies.
From the garden there are views across to west Dorset.
The owners, Mr. and Mrs Robin Goffe welcome visitors and
provide cream teas. The garden is also open on both May
Bank Holiday weekends and one Sunday in June. The house
is not open.
Location: Wayford Manor, near Crewkerne, TA18 8QG. 3
miles SW of Crewkerne. Turn off the B3165 at Clapton, or S
off the A30 Chard to Crewkerne Road.
Open: Easter Sunday and Monday, 4th & 5th April; 2nd &
3rd May; 30th & 31st May; Sunday 20th June. All opening
Wayford Manor a lovely mainly Elizabethan manor house redesigned by
times 2pm - 5pm.
the Edwardian architect/designer Harold Peto.
Admission: £4, children £1.
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