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The National Garden Scheme opens privately owned gardens in England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and the Channel Islands on selected dates for charity. It was founded in 1927 with the aim of "opening gardens of quality, character and interest to the public for charity".
She worked for many charitable causes including the National Garden Scheme of which she was chairwoman. Since Lady Heald's death in 2004 [ 16 ] extensive restoration work has been carried out and the garden, fittingly, opened as part of the National Garden Scheme.
Anderson Manor is a Grade I listed manor house in the Dorset village of Anderson in England. It was built in 1622 for John Tregonwell. Today it is privately owned, but its gardens are open to the public under the National Gardens Scheme. The gardens are Grade II listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. [1]
Gardens in England is a link page for any garden, botanical garden, arboretum or pinetum open to the public in England. The National Gardens Scheme also opens many small, interesting, private gardens to the public on one or two days a year for charity.
That year 609 gardens opened at 1 shilling admission raising over £8,000 (worth about £450k today) from 164,000 visitors. The King suggested this become an annual event and the National Garden Scheme was created as a fundraising committee of the QNI. [2] Wagg was honorary secretary of the NGS 1927–1946, and became vice-president in 1948.
Felley Priory is a 16th century house with gardens located in the village of Felley, Nottinghamshire, UK. It is situated on the grounds of a former priory established by Augustinians in 1156 and dissolved in 1536. The gardens were started in 1974 by Maria Chaworth-Musters and opened to the public through the National Garden Scheme just two ...
Ulting Wick is a 11-acre (4.5 ha) garden, situated at Ulting near Maldon in Essex, UK.It is centred around three listed black Essex barns and a 16th-century farmhouse. It is open to the public, by appointment, under the National Garden Scheme.
The communal private gardens in the centre of the square are grade II listed with English Heritage since 1987, and open for the National Gardens Scheme each year. [ 1 ] The Buddhist Society has been based at no.58 since 1956.