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Owlpen Manor
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“Owlpen, in Gloucestershire - ah, what a dream is there!” - Vita Sackville-West, 1941
This garden, set within a beautiful Cotswold valley, is a rare survival of an early formal garden on a manorial scale... ‘possibly the earliest domestic garden in England to survive in something approaching completeness’ -Sir Geoffrey jellicoe. It was re-ordered with terraces and strong symmetry in 1723 by Thomas Daunt IV.
The garden became an icon to the designers of the early twentieth century, as a ‘Sleeping Beauty’. Gertrude Jekyll visited the garden several times and featured it in her influential book, Gardens for Small Country Houses (1914). After being uninhabited for over 100 years, iit was restored sympathetically in ‘Old English’ style by Norman Jewson in 1926. Vita Sackville-West described the garden between the wars as a ‘dream’, one of ‘the places one has seen and loved’, whose yew rooms were precursors to those in her great garden at Sissinghurst.
The garden has been reordered since 1975 by Sir Nicholas and Lady Mander with magnificent yew topiary, old roses, hornbeams and box parterres on seven hanging terraces.
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Gloucestershire
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Fact File
Opening Times: 1st May to 30th September 2008 onTues, Thurs and Sun, Gardens and Restaurant from 12.00 noon and House open from 2pm until 5pm (last admission at 4.30pm).
Admission Rates: Garden Only - Adults £3.50, Senior Citizen £3.50, Child £1.50
House & Garden - Adults £5.50, Senior Citizen £5.50, Child £2.50
Groups Rates: Minimum group size: 25
Adults £5.00, Senior Citizen £5.00, Child £2.50
Facilities: Restaurant, Lunches and Teas.
Disabled Access: No. Parking for disabled on site.
Tours/Events: None.
Coach Parking: Yes.
Length of Visit: 1 1/2 - 2 hours
Booking Contact: Jayne Simmons, Owlpen Estate Office, Owlpen Manor, Uley, Dursley, Gloucestershire, GL11 5BZ
Telephone: 01453 860261 Fax: 01453 860819
Email: sales@owlpen.com
Website: www.owlpen.com
Location: Approach from Uley village, 1/2 mile east off B4066 at village green in Uley (near the Old Crown pub) between Dursley and Stroud.
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