Cambridge Garden visits 2014
Childerley Hall, Dry Drayton
The house at Childerley is the surviving redbrick wing of a celebrated Elizabethan House, where Charles I was once held under house arrest and sits in a garden that has been created by the Jenkins family, and is adjacent to one of the longest timber-framed barns in England.
The romantic garden is known for its outstanding collection of old fashioned roses, an herbaceous border of riotous colour and large expertly maintained lawn. It has many paths to explore that lead to water features, sculptures, a Tudor Chapel, intimate summer house, croquet lawn and a magnificent lake.
- Childerley Hall is the surviving redbrick wing of a celebrated Elizabethan House, where Charles I was once held under house arrest
- Childerley Halls Tudor Chapel now converted for other uses including serving our lunch
- Childerley Hall, some yew topiary along the boarder with the lake and gardens
- Childerley Hall, some 100 year old boxwood trees
- Childerley Hall, box under the boxwood trees
- Childerley Hall
- Childerley Hall, the lawn setup for a concert later in the evening
- Childerley Hall border lined with lavendar
The College Gardens
Our expert guides gave us some of the history of the colleges and how they came into being and you can read more about each of them by visiting the links below.
- Clare College Fellows Garden with EBTS UK Chairman Mark Hopkins thanking the recently retired Bursar of the college for hosting the event
- Clare College Fellows Garden, The Chairmans Reception on the immaculate lawn
- Clare College Fellows Garden, sunken garden
- Clare College Fellows Garden, riverside
- Clare College where meals and meetings were based during the weekend
- Sidney Sussex College
- Sidney Sussex College with one of the three expert guides who gave us the history of the colleges
- Sidney Sussex College
- Sidney Sussex College
- Pembroke College
- Pembroke College
- Pembroke College
- Pembroke College
- Pembroke College
- Pembroke College
- Emmanuel College
- Emmanuel College
- Emmanuel College
- Emmanuel College
- Emmanuel College
- Emmanuel College
Chauffered Punting on the 'Backs'
Island Hall, Godmanchester
Island Hall, Godmanchester is an elegant riverside mansion built in the late 1740s. The house is situated in 3 acres of gardens including an ornamental Saxon island in the river Great Ouse.
- Island Hall, Godmanchester
- Island Hall, Godmanchester
- Island Hall, Godmanchester
- Island Hall, Godmanchester
- Island Hall, Godmanchester
- Island Hall, Godmanchester
- Island Hall, Godmanchester
- Island Hall, Godmanchester
- Island Hall, Godmanchester
- Island Hall, Godmanchester
The Manor, Hemingford Grey
The Manor at Hemingford Grey is a moated house surrounded by four acres of garden renowned for its collection of over 200 old roses and a collection of irises containing many famous Dykes medal winners, most of them dating from the 1950s. You get a first impression of the garden when you arrive via the towpath running along side the river Great Ouse. With its large herbaceous borders of mainly scented plants the garden gives the feeling of being a cottage garden full of favourite plants in a rather formal setting of lawns with topiary coronation shapes and chess pieces in their black and white planted squares.
Clare & Kings
- Lunch in The Great Hall, Clare College
- Then on to Kings College Chapel for Choral Evensong
- Kings College Chapel
- Kings College Chapel
- Kings College Chapel
- Having enjoyed the splendour of the chapel and heard the most amazing singing it was back to Clare College for tea
- To round off the weekend afternoon tea in another of the Clare College gardens
- Clare College
- Clare College