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Lodge Park was built as a grandstand in the Sherborne Estate near the villages of Sherborne, Aldsworth and Northleach in Gloucestershire, England.The site is owned by the National Trust [1] and the former grandstand is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. [2]
The National Trust took over full responsibility in 1986. The gardens date from the 1850s. In the courtyard of the main building are two ancient yew trees, male and female, called 'Adam' and 'Eve'. First recorded in correspondence dating to 1712, they are estimated to be at least 500 years old. [9]
It is one of the best-known and most influential Arts and Crafts gardens in Britain, with its linked "garden rooms" of hedges, rare trees, shrubs and herbaceous borders. Created by Lawrence Johnston , it is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.
The National Trust states that Newton House is "thought to be one of the most haunted houses in Britain", [12] and Wales Online cites it as one of the most notable ghostly houses of Wales. [19] Over the years, many ghost sightings or paranormal activity have been allegedly witnessed at the house.
Once it was established, he presented it to the National Trust in 1952. [2] Winkworth Arboretum exhibits over 1000 species of trees as well as large collections of azalea, rhododendron, and holly on slopes leading down to landscaped garden lakes. Gertrude Jekyll explored the woods in the early 20th century. [citation needed]
Snowshill Manor is a National Trust property located in the village of Snowshill, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. It is a sixteenth-century country house, best known for its twentieth-century owner, Charles Paget Wade, an eccentric who amassed an enormous collection of objects that interested him. He gave the property to the National Trust in ...
A five-year project by the National Trust, underway in 2022, to conserve ancient, veteran and notable trees, [77] in a number of sites across Bristol, included Tyntesfield. The Tyntesfield site is of additional national significance because its many ancient and veteran trees support populations of rare, vulnerable and endangered invertebrates.
At Leonard Messel's death in 1953 it was bequeathed to the National Trust with 111 hectares (275 acres) of woodland, one of the first gardens taken on by the Trust. Lady Rosse continued to serve as Garden Director. The garden suffered much damage in the Great Storm of October 1987, losing 486 mature trees and many of the shrubs. [9]