Hanham Court

If you have already been, why not come again in 2010?

This unexpectedly rural Manor house, a Monastic foundation with 13th century Church and Tithe barn, is found at the end of a tiny lane among fields, half way between the centres of Bath and Bristol. Julian and Isabel Bannerman, award winning garden designers to the Prince of Wales, have created over fifteen years a deeply romantic, scented garden. The formal garden has luscious borders of old roses, tree peonies, lilies, and fountains. An amazing ‘Dancing Crown’ Fountain is in the Woodland Garden, which has a stream, pools,snowdrops, tree ferns, magnolias and Temples. Outwith the walls lies a miniature Park, a downland of wild flower meadows overlooking the River Avon and an Orchard. Behind the Tithe Barn is a small vegetable and cutting garden and near it the Loggia, where the teas,tickets and plants are sold.

the perfect escape from everyday life…