Mapperton Gardens

Terraced valley gardens surrounding delightful Tudor/Jacobean manor house, stable blocks, and dovecote and All Saints Church. Pevsner's Dorset Guide says, 'There can hardly be anywhere a more enchanting manorial group than Mapperton'. On upper levels, a walled croquet lawn, then the Orangery and Italianate formal garden with fountains, topiary, grottoes, ponds and herbaceous borders. Below, a seventeenth century summer house, fishponds, topiary and borders. Lower garden with specimen shrubs and rare trees, leading to woodland and spring gardens. Autumn colour, spring bulbs. Used as location in Jane Austen's Emma, Restoration and Tom Jones. Shop with plants, pots and gift items.

Address:

Mapperton
Beaminster
Dorset
DT8 3NR

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