Sheringham Park
Landscaped park and gardens near Sheringham, Norfolk, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sheringham Park is a landscape park and gardens near the town of Sheringham, Norfolk, England.[1] The park surrounds Sheringham Hall, lying mostly to its south. The hall is privately owned on a long leasehold. The plantations of Sheringham Park are in the care of the National Trust and open to visitors. National Trust members and guests have no rights of access across the park and farmland surrounding Sheringham Hall. Access is solely at the discretion of the owners of George Youngs (Farms) Ltd which farms the Sheringham estate and who also own the long leasehold of Sheringham Hall.
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Sheringham Park within Norfolk | |
Location | Sheringham, North Norfolk, East of England, Norfolk |
Coordinates | 52°55′48″N 01°10′30″E |
Established | July 1812 (1812-07) |
Owned by | In the care of the National Trust |
Website | www |
The park was designed by Humphry Repton (1752-1818) who presented his proposals in July 1812 in the form of one of his Red Books.[2] He described Sheringham as his "favourite and darling child in Norfolk". Abbot and Charlotte Upcher bought the estate in 1811, and successive generations of the Upcher family did much to develop the estate, the hall and the park, as well as building a school.
There are fine mature woodlands and a large variety of rhododendrons and azaleas. In the early 20th century, Henry Morris Upcher obtained rhododendron seeds of various types from plantsman Ernest "Chinese" Wilson. Plants from this source which can found at the garden include Rhododendron ambiguum, calophytum and decorum, among others.[3] Many other species of tree and shrub are represented in the garden, including fifteen kinds of magnolia, large specimen pieris. Among the other trees are maples, acers, styrax, eucryphia, pocket handkerchief tree davidia involucrata and a fine example of the snowdrop tree. Several overlook towers provide good views over the plantations, and of the nearby coast and surrounding countryside. A garden temple was constructed in the park in 1975 to the designs of James Fletcher-Watson.[4]