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15April-22 May 11-5pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday
25 May - 2 June 11-5pm every day
3 June - 24 June 11-5pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday
27 July - 1 Sep 11-5pm every day
2 Sep - 2 Oct 11 - 5 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday
5 Oct - 27 Oct 11-4 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday
28 Oct - 3 Nov 11-4 every day
9 Nov - 22 Dec 11 -4 Sat and Sunday garden only
15 April-22 May 11-5pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday
25 May - 2 June 11-5pm every day
3 June - 24 June 11-5pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday
27 July - 1 Sep 11-5pm every day
2 Sep - 2 Oct 11 - 5 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday
5 Oct - 27 Oct 11-4 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday
28 Oct - 3 Nov 11-4 every day
Sun 16 June
Late Jan - mid March March - May April October
Snowdrops & aconites Daffodils & Narcissus Blossom in Orchard Autumn colour on trees - estate & woodland walks
Gift Aid Admission (Standard Admission prices in brackets)
House and garden: adult £9.00 (£8.10), child £4.50 (£4.05), family £22.50 (£20.25).
Garden only: adult £5.00 (£4.50), child £2.50 (£2.25), family £12.50 (£11.25).2013 prices start from 1 March.
Discount voucher when arriving by bicycle.
The restored kitchen garden supplies a proportion of the fruit and vegetables used in the tearoom. Many events, see own website
15th-century moated manor house; Secret doors and priest's hole; Mary Queen of Scots embroideries; Bedingfeld family, still in residence after 500yrs; Magnificent Tudor gatehouse; French parterre; Woodland walks and trails.Garden trail.The Victorian walled garden has now been replanted with Norfolk apples and pears and will also be a wild flower meadow.
Crown Hotel, Swaffham
Bedingfeld Arms, Oxborough
The pride of the garden is the extraordinary parterre which has a scrolled design and requires large quantities of bedding plants to manifest itself each year. In such a flat landscape this sets off the hall and moat to advantage and combines effectively with oaks, beeches, cedars and Wellingtonias planted near the house.
On the other side of the parterre, beyond the yew hedges is a herbaceous border and beyond that the walled Kitchen Garden which is planted with Norfolk apples and pears, English quince and medlars. Further on a wooden drawbridge leads into My Lady's Wood where a thatched summer-house sits among the oaks, beeches and sycamore. In Spring this area is covered with snowdrops, violets and wildflowers.
The hall was originally built as a fortified house for Sir Edmund Bedingfeld in about 1482. The sixth baronet, Sir Henry Paston Bedingfeld, and his wife Margaret, imported a design for a parterre from Paris in 1845 and remarkably it survives almost intact to this day, although flowers have replaced the original gravel and crushed stone, such as chalk and black stone, providing the necessary colour. The large Victorian walled garden has been replaced by an orchard for practical reasons.