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title - what people say

Wentbridge House Hotel was superb and the weekend was so good that we have already booked to come back for a week next summer to see everything we didn't have time to see this time.

Alice Matthews - Competition Winner - July 2009

 

Winner

Dinner at Wortley Hall was gorgeous and the staff were all lovely. The walk with the head gardener was very informative and really enjoyable.

Hilary Morris - Winner of Gardens of South Yorkshire Competition


My daughter would vote the Children's play area at Wentworth Castle the best.

Paul Weightman - Winner of Gardens of South Yorkshire Harrogate competition May 2009

 

Tatton 08 Prize winner

We will certainly go to the area again, what lovely countryside and friendly people! Thank you for organising everything for us.

Angie Baskerville - Winner of Gardens of South Yorkshire Tatton competition July 2008

 

(Comments from some of our recent prize winners)

 

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Brodsworth Hall

Brodsworth Hall Fountain

The story of a house, the memories of a home.

 

The Victorian gardens at Brodsworth Hall, near Doncaster, have been restored to their 1860s heyday, following a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The 15 acres of gardens are landscaped in true high Victorian style with formal areas of traditional dense evergreen shrubberies broken up by bright splashes of colour in urns and the flower garden's bedding.

Grand Gardens in Minature

A rare survival from the Victorian Age, these grand gardens in miniature are a delight in any season. Against a backdrop of enchanting features like the summerhouse, pleasure grounds, fernery, pet cemetery and the fountain centre-piece, the pathways wind through carpets of spring snowdrops, the dazzling laburnum arch, rainbows of period summer bedding and the seasonal delight of winter evergreens.

Brodsworth Rose Pergola

Roses, Fernery and Marble Staues

You will find a restored curved iron rose pergola which runs through a box edged rose garden which features 19th century roses including a collection of fragrant Portland Roses.

The Grove forms a quarry garden with rocky dells, and a fern dell, with small buildings, walkways and bridges that criss cross one another at different levels.

Brodsworth Hall Statue

Marble sculptures - figures of greyhounds and shallow urns line the steps that lead from the terrace to the lawn. Statuary is set in niches in the yew hedge. All this sculpture is of the same period and arrived from Italy when the gardens were created.

Rare and unusual plants

  • Huge 30ft Strawberry Trees, Arbutus unedo and andrachnoides, grow in the formal gardens.  Lychee-like fruit decorate the trees in October to ripen to a rich strawberry red.
  • A collection of hollies available to the Victorian Gardeners such as Ilex X altaclerensis 'Camelliifolia', the Camellia leaved holly.
  • Period correct tulips such as 'Coleur Cardinal' and Tulipa saxitalis and turkestanica.
  • Exotic planting in the parterre during summer.

All revealing the fashions and desires of the Victorian country gentry.

Go to Brodsworth Hall's opening times for more information on facilities and prices.