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Last updated on 17 April 09

Lamport Hall and Gardens

  • Lamport Hall Garden Photograph © Lamport Hall
  • Lamport Hall Garden, Northamptonshire Photograph © Lamport Hall

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A mainly eighteenth century house with a park and nineteenth century garden, on the site of a seventeenth century house and garden. There is an 'Italian garden', made by Sir Charles Isham, with a large rockery. Brent Elliot writes that 'In 1881, an engraving was published showing a toy monkey swinging from one of the miniature trees, and by the 1890s the rockery was swarming with miniature china figures, mostly gnomes, of continental provenance. . . This is the first recorded appearance of gnomes in an English garden, and the motive for their addition was religious. Isham was an ardent spiritualist'. (Victorian Gardens, p 192-3)
Address - Lamport Hall, Lamport, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, NN6 9HD
Opening times - Easter Sunday to 11 October.Open 2pm. Guided tours of the house at 2.15 and 3.00pm every Wednesday and Thursday within this period. Also non guided tours of the house on Bank Holiday Sundays and Mondays plus Sunday 10 May, June 12/13/14 and October 10/11 (last admission approx 4.00pm)
Admission - Adult £6.50, Seniors £6.00 children 5-16 £2.50 for house and gardens.
Website - Visit the Lamport Hall and Gardens website

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