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The Hampton Court Garden Festival (formerly The Hampton Court Flower Show) is an annual British flower show, held in early July of each year. The show is run by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) at Hampton Court Palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The show features show gardens, floral marquees and pavilions, talks, and ...
In 2009 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the accession to the throne of King Henry VIII, a new "Tudor Garden" was created in Chapel Court, Hampton Court, designed by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan. [68] To decorate the garden eight small wooden King's Beasts were carved and painted in bright colours, [ 68 ] each sitting atop a 6-foot-high painted ...
Hampton Court, from the park. Hampton Court Park, also known as Home Park, is a walled royal park managed by the Historic Royal Palaces. [1] The park lies between the gardens of Hampton Court Palace and Kingston upon Thames and Surbiton in south west London, England, mostly within the post town of East Molesey, but with its eastern extremity within the post town of Kingston.
In 2009, to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the accession to the throne of King Henry VIII, a new Tudor garden was created by Hampton Court in the form of the Chapel Court. To decorate the garden eight small wooden King's Beasts were carved in oak and painted in bright colours, each sitting atop a six-foot-high painted wooden column. [18] [19]
Hampton Court House is a Grade II listed [1] 18th-century building on the edge of Bushy Park in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, built the house in 1757. The estate is Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. [2]
The house is set in 2.3 acres of gardens that include a parterre and water features. The remaining 143-year lease of the Pavilion from the Crown Estate was for sale for £6.5 million in 2007. [2] The Pavilion was again for sale in 2012; priced at £10 million. [3] Ernest Law, the historian of Hampton Court Palace, lived at the Pavilion until ...
Stud House is an early 18th-century house in the centre of Hampton Court Park near Hampton Court Palace. [1] It is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England. [2] It was traditionally the official residence of the Master of the Horse. [3] The former stables at the house are separately listed, also at Grade II. [4]
Hampton Court Maze is a hedge maze at Hampton Court Palace and the oldest surviving hedge maze in Britain. [ 2 ] Commissioned by King William III , the maze, which is about one-third of an acre, is planted in a trapezoid shape and was designed by George London and Henry Wise . [ 2 ]