{"id":10786,"date":"2015-10-16T10:14:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T09:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10786"},"modified":"2015-10-18T05:14:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T04:14:24","slug":"tour-of-english-gardens-around-windsor-and-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/tour-of-english-gardens-around-windsor-and-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of English gardens around Windsor and Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The country between Windsor and Bath has long been popular with people who are \u2018tired of London\u2019 and many of them have charming gardens made by famous designers. The Windsor to Bath Sisley Garden Tour<\/a> provides opportunities to see them without the hassles of driving or finding places to stay. The route passes through beautiful countryside, lovely villages and cherished market towns, including Bath, Windsor, Marlborough, Malmesbury and Shaftesbury.\u00a0The garden tour starts with a pick up from London Victoria Train Station or Heathrow Airport. The week includes visits to:-
\nWindsor Castle<\/a>\u00a0was built after the Norman Conquest of 1066. Set in a great hunting forest, now called Windsor Great Park, it\u00a0became one of\u00a0the royal family\u2019s best-loved country homes.
\nMunsted Wood<\/a>. This famous garden was the home of Gertrude Jekyll<\/a>, the most famous Arts and Crafts<\/a> garden designer and the author of many ever-popular books on planting design. The house was designed by Edwin Lutyens<\/a>.
\nThe Manor at Upton Grey<\/a>. Designed by Gertrude Jekyll<\/a> for a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, the garden is particularly interesting for the planting, which was fully researched and restored by Rosamund Wallinger.
\nBury Court. It has a courtyard garden by Piet Oudolf<\/a>, working with the owner, and a front garden by the minimalist garden designer Christopher Bradley-Hole.
\nWest Green Garden<\/a>. An old manor house with an admired twentieth century garden by Marylyn Abbott.
\nBowood House<\/a> is one of the best surviving examples of \u00a0Lancelot Brown\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Serpentine style of garden design<\/a>. The serpentine lake and encircling tree belt can be seen from the Italian Garden \u2013 which was designed as a stage from which to view the surrounding landscape.
\nIford Manor<\/a> was designed by Harold Peto<\/a>, an Arts and Crafts architect and garden designer. He owned the house and spent many years collecting statues and other features in Italy. The garden is beside a river in a remarkably tranquil, beautiful and isolated valley.
\nStourhead<\/a> is rightly famous as the best example of a \u2018landscape garden\u2019 designed to recreate the \u2018landscape of antiquity\u2019 as envisioned by Claude Lorraine and other great landscape painters.
\nShute House Gardens<\/a> were designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe<\/a>, the most famous English landscape architect of the twentieth century.
\nAbbey House Gardens<\/a> were designed by a well-known designer who promoted postmodernism in gardens<\/a>: Ian Pollard. It formed part of Benedictine monastery before Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries and is now a remarakable integration of new and old.
\nThough not part of the Sisley tour, it is easy to make a post-tour\u00a0visit to Hampton Court \u00a0Palace Garden<\/a> and the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The country between Windsor and Bath has long been popular with people who are \u2018tired of London\u2019 and many of them have charming gardens made by famous designers. The Windsor to Bath Sisley Garden Tour provides opportunities to see them without the hassles of driving or finding places to stay. The route passes through beautiful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10786"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10804,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10786\/revisions\/10804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}