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Gardens

The magnificent 18C gardens of Rousham House, designed by William Kent and virtually unaltered since

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The Oxfordshire Cotswolds has some of the most beautiful gardens to visit in the UK: one of the finest houses in the country, Blenheim Palace has 100 acres of formal gardens; Kelmscott Manor with its meadow and small formal garden was an inspiration to William Morris; Chastleton House has Jacobean topiary and a herbaceous border planted to Gertrude Jekyll’s ‘JMW Turner’ colour scheme; at Rousham the garden really takes centre stage - it remains almost as its designer, William Kent (1685-1748), left it – one of the few gardens of this date to have escaped alteration; Batsford Arboretum has one of the largest private collections of trees and shrubs in the country.

There are also a number of annual open gardens and flower shows each year, including the Blenheim Palace Flower Show.

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    Burford

    One of Oxfordshire’s top attractions and one of the most beautiful wildlife parks in the country, Cotswold Wildlife Park is a superb mix of animals, landscaped parkland and gardens, appealing to all ages. Many of the animals are rare and endangered, visitors can walk through the Madagascar…

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    Batsford Arboretum & Garden Centre

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    Parkland / Woodland Garden

    Moreton In Marsh

    Batsford Arboretum is home to one of the country’s largest private tree collections. Enjoy early colour from snowdrops, spring-flowering bulbs and Japanese flowering cherries, escape the heat under the tree canopy in summer and prepare to be amazed by the outstanding autumn colour! You’ll find 56…

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    Guide Price from £3.50 to £20.00 Per Ticket
  3. Blenheim Palace aerial photo

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    Blenheim Palace

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    Historic House / Palace

    Woodstock

    A visit to Blenheim Palace offers an unforgettable experience. It’s a chance to share the splendours of Baroque architecture designed in the 1700s by Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor, to wonder at the collections of art, tapestry and antiques, and to explore the Park and Gardens and discover landscapes…

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    Guide Price from £7.60 to £67.50 Per Ticket
  4. Chastleton House

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    Chastleton House

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    Historic House / Palace

    Chastleton

    A rare gem of a Jacobean country house, Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612 by a prosperous wool merchant as an impressive statement of wealth and power. Owned by the same increasingly impoverished family until 1991, the house remained essentially unchanged for nearly 400 years,…

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    Guide Price from £2.50 to £27.00 Per Ticket
  5. Kelmscott Manor

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    Kelmscott Manor

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    Historic House / Palace

    Kelmscott

    The summer home of William Morris, Kelmscott Manor is a Grade I listed farmhouse, built around 1600 adjacent to the River Thames.

    William Morris chose it as his summer home, signing a joint lease with the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the summer of 1871. Morris loved the…

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  6. The Gardens of Rousham House - © Harpur Gardens

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    Rousham

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    Garden

    Tackley

    Rousham and its landscape garden should be a place of pilgrimage for students of the work of William Kent (1685–1748). Rousham represents the first phase of English landscape design and remains almost as Kent left it, one of the few gardens of this date to have escaped alteration, with many…

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