Last updated on 21 February 08
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Clandon Park Garden

3.0/5 (1 ratings)

Photograph © Oxford Botanica/Adam Hodge

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An eighteenth century house, park and garden. Clandon Park was designed by Lancelot Brown, in 1781, on the site of an earlier garden. The house was built c.1730 for the 2nd Lord Onslow by the Venetian architect Giacomo Leoni. Clandon's interior is the most complete example of Leoni's work to survive and is notable for its magnificent two-storeyed, white Marble Hall. The Onslow family are unique in providing three Speakers of the House of Commons from one family. The house is filled with the superb collection of 18th-century furniture, porcelain, and textiles acquired in the 1920s by the connoisseur Mrs Gubbay. A garden was added in the late nineteenth century, with a parterre, grotto, sunken Dutch garden and a Maori meeting house. One of only four outside New Zealand, it was brought back in 1892 by the 4th Earl of Onslow, who was Governor there. The park has fine entrance gates and a lake but is not open to the public.

Address - West Clandon, Surrey, England, GU4 7RQ
Opening times - End March to end October. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. Open 11am to 5pm.
Admission - £7.00
Website - Visit the Clandon Park Garden website

Designers and Influences

This garden has been designed and influenced by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown

Local Hotels

Hotels within 30km as the crow flies from this garden.

Manor House Hotel (1km away)
From £44.00 to £114.00
Premier Inn Guildford Central (3km away)
From £40.00 to £137.50
Flexi-Lets@Printing House Square Guildford (3km away)
From £90.00 to £150.00
Flexi-Lets@Mathon Court Guildford (3km away)
From £66.00 to £110.00
Mandolay (3km away)
From £49.00 to £159.00
De Vere Venues Horsley Park (4km away)
From £39.00 to £119.00
Ramada Guildford Leatherhead (4km away)
From £10.00 to £110.00
Holiday Inn Guildford (5km away)
From £68.00 to £395.00

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Loseley Park (6km away)
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Polesden Lacey (7km away)
RHS Garden, Wisley (7km away)
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Nearby Garden Nurseries

Garden Nurseries within 30km as the crow flies from this garden.

Spring Reach Nursery (4km away)
Foliage Scented & Herb Plants (5km away)
Wisley Plant Centre (RHS) (7km away)
Little Brook Fuchsias (11km away)
Seale Nurseries (13km away)
Hart Canna (14km away)
Pantiles Garden Centre (15km away)
Beechcroft Nursery (18km away)

Recent Reviews

over 2 years ago Adam Hodge said
There isnt a huge amount to see as far as gardens go..a pleasant amble past the Dutch garden from the car park into a woooded area and thence to some lawns and a lovely view of the south side of the house.
The house itself has lots of interesting history about the Onslow family.

(3.0/5)

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