Gardens · West Midlands
Hidcote Manor Garden
Lawrence Johnston's 1907 Cotswold 'garden rooms' — the original outdoor-room garden.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Nearest railway station
- Honeybourne · 6.4 km
- Paid entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Hidcote in Gloucestershire is the early-20th-century Cotswold garden created by American horticulturist Lawrence Johnston — a series of outdoor 'rooms' divided by hedges, each with its own colour or theme. The first NT garden, donated 1948. The Red Borders, Pillar Garden and Stilt Garden are all originals.
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Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cotswolds
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Hidcote Manor Garden is a garden in the United Kingdom, located at the village of Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. It is one of the best-known and most influential Arts and Crafts gardens in Britain, with its linked "garden rooms" of hedges, rare trees, shrubs and herbaceous borders. Created by Lawrence Johnston, it is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.
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Background
History
The Americans, Lawrence Johnston and his mother, settled in Britain about 1900, and Lawrence immediately became a British citizen and fought in the British Army during the Boer war. In 1907 Johnston's mother, Mrs Gertrude Winthrop (she had re-married), purchased the Hidcote Manor Estate. It was situated in a part of Britain with strong connections to the then-burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement and an Anglicized American artistic expatriate community centred nearby at Broadway, Worcestershire. Johnston soon became interested in turning the fields around the house into a garden. In 1907 he began to lay out the key features of the garden. There are no records to show how many gardeners were…
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- Coordinates
- 52.0833, -1.7611
- County
- Gloucestershire
- District
- Cotswold
- Parish
- Ebrington
- Postcode
- GL55 6LP
- Parliamentary constituency
- North Cotswolds
- Nearest railway station
- Honeybourne — 6.4 km
- Official site
- www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q1617307 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Hidcote Manor Garden (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Hidcote Manor Garden?
- Hidcote Manor Garden is in Gloucestershire, the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode GL55 6LP), in the parish of Ebrington.
- When was Hidcote Manor Garden built?
- Dates from the modern period.
- Who runs Hidcote Manor Garden?
- Hidcote Manor Garden is operated by National Trust.
- Is Hidcote Manor Garden a protected site?
- Yes — Hidcote Manor Garden is part of the Cotswolds National Landscape (AONB).
- Is Hidcote Manor Garden free to visit?
- Hidcote Manor Garden is operated by National Trust. Entry is free for National Trust members; non-members pay an admission charge.
- How do I get to Hidcote Manor Garden?
- The nearest railway station is Honeybourne, about 6.4 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode GL55 6LP.