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The grounds at Castle Howard have always impressed visitors with their splendour and variety. Visitors may enjoy extensive walks through woodlands, formal gardens, along terraces or beside water, and view the buildings and sculptures in the landscape.
Castle Howard, Nr York, North Yorkshire.
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Chatsworth House. Home of the Duke & Duchess of Devonshire. Outside, visitors can enjoy a new sensory garden and Elisabeth Frink's sculpture, Walking Madonna.  The farmyard and playground is planning a new barn for displays, talks and demonstrations, and there are new activities for young visitors.
Chatsworth is 8 miles north of Matlock, off the B6012. It is 16 miles from junction 29 of the M1, signposted via Chesterfield, and it is 42 miles from junction 19 of the M6.
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The Hidden Gardens of Dewstow. It is only when you go below these gardens, and you enter the subterranean world underneath, that you begin to understand the extent of the vision and enormous ammount of work and skills involved in creating Gardens that were unique at the turn of the 20th Century.
Caerwent, Wales.
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The Eden Project - In a giant crater in Cornwall nestle the largest conservatories in the world. Inside:  towering rainforests and tropical crops, the hot, dusty Mediterranean with citrus groves and gnarled cork oaks.  Outside: crops and landscapes of Chile, Cornwall and the Indian Hills.
St Austell, Cornwall.
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Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Water Garden - Attracting approximately 300,000 visitors a year, Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal is the National Trust's most visited pay-for-entry property. Acquired by the Trust from North Yorkshire County Council in 1983, it was declared a World Heritage site in 1987.
Ripon, Nr Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
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Harewood House is a great family day out. Visit the Adventure Playground, explore the Gardens and Bird Gardens, take a boat trip across the lake or marvel at the collections in the House.
Nr Leeds, Yorkshire.
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Kew Gardens & Wakehurst Place. The fantastic Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Place is a fabulous day out. With amazing gardens, science & learning, conservation & much more. 
Surrey & West Sussex.

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Lost Gardens of Heligan. The award winning Lost Gardens of Heligan extend to some eighty acres of superb pleasure grounds together with a magnificent complex of walled gardens and a huge, productive vegetable garden, all fast returning to their former glory.
St Austell, Cornwall.
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Mount Ephraim Gardens.The nine acres of garden around Mount Ephraim have an atmosphere of peace and tranquility. The garden layout is Edwardian, though bedding-out is no longer practicable. Trees have been planted over many generations, so there are mature specimens of oak, cedar, beech etc.
Faversham, Kent.
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Newby Hall & Gardens. Newby Hall was built between 1691-1695 and shortly afterwards the owner, Sir Edward Blackett, commissioned Peter Aram as head gardener to lay out formal gardens and avenues in keeping with the period. Very little of Aram's layout for Newby remains today and the present design is largely attributable to the present owner's grandfather, the late Major Edward Compton, who inherited Newby in 1921.
Ripon, North Yorkshire.
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The Plantation Garden - A large Victorian garden and architectural experience in Norwich city centre. The Plantation Garden  includes, a huge gothic fountain, flower beds, lawns, woodland walkways, rustic bridge Italianate terrace, Medieval terrace wall; and hundreds of architectural details fashionable in the mid 19th century. . This idiosyncratic garden, was established 140 years ago in a 3 acre abandoned chalk quarry and is a haven of peace and tranquility, and a glimpse into a bygone age.
Norwich City centre.
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Probus Gardens - Probus Gardens were established nearly 30 years ago to encourage local gardeners to take the best advantage of the opportunities that the Cornish climate affords. The gardens were designed to provide information, advice and ideas to all interested gardeners.
Near Truro in the south-west of England
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Renishaw Hall has been the home of the Sitwell family for over 350 years. In 1625 George Sitwell built a small H-shaped manor house to which his descendent Sitwell Sitwell, later first baronet, made vast additions in the Georgian period, also the stables and various follies in and around the park. The beautiful Italianate garden, park and lake were the creation of the eccentric Sir George Sitwell, grandfather of the present owner.
Renishaw Hall is on the eastern most foothill of the Pennines, overlooking the Rother Valley and is about 7 miles from  Sheffield and Chesterfield  three miles from exit 30 of the M1.
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Trebah - Spectacular 26 acre Cornish ravine garden, rated among the 80 finest gardens in the world. This sub-tropical paradise is home to a unique collection of rare and exotic plants, trees and shrubs winding down to a private and secluded beach on the Helford River.
Nr falmouth, Cornwall.
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Abbotsbury Gardens - Established in 1765 by the first Countess of Ilchester as a kitchen garden to her nearby castle. Developed since then into a magnificent 20 acre garden filled with rare and exotic plants from all over the world. Most of these were new introductions to this country, found by the plant hunting descendants of the Countess.
Abbotsbury, Dorset.
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Barnsdale Gardens are the creation of Geoff Hamilton, Britain's best loved television gardener and presenter of BBC TV's Gardener's World weekly gardening programme, which Geoff presented from his home at Barnsdale in Rutland.
Nr Oakham, Rutland.
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Bodnant Garden is one of the most beautiful gardens in the UK, spanning some 80 acres of land situated above the River Conwy on ground sloping towards the west and looking across the valley towards the Snowdonia range.
Nr Colwyn Bay, Conwy, Wales.
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Borde Hill is a garden of contrasts that captures the imagination and delights the senses. It is set in 200 acres of a traditional country estate in the area of outstanding natural beauty lying between the town of Haywards Heath and the village of Cuckfield in mid Sussex.
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