Hinton Admiral
Once a year a local landowner (read: Many years ago an ancestor stuck a big fence around a piece of land and said “I’m having this”) named George Meyrick opens up his gardens to the public with the proceeds going to help local charities.
Having just been down to the Christchurch Food Festival we needed to walk off another titanic breakfast from the superb Priory 17, so took a trip to the Hinton Admiral estate.
It was absolutely baking up there today, and the gardens themselves (and the main house) were magnificient. I’ve created a Flickr set containing a whole host of snaps of the gardens. It’s amazing to think places like this are right on your doorstep and you never even know!
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Yes, it is a beautiful and well-hidden place. Hoping to call in there this year if they open it again – do you happen to know which day(s) the owner is planning to open to the public?
K.
I believe it is always the May bank holiday weekend, so whenever that is this year, that’s our date!
Tempted to go again this year if its a nice day.
This year – 2010 – the gardens will be open on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th May. Tickets are £5 per person.
Say hello to me when you park – I’ll be directing the cars as usual!
Thank you for such a comprehensive set of pics. I grew up in Bransgore and I would often stop on Lyndhurst road just past the lodge and peer across the fields through a gap in the woods to get a glimpse of the house. How I would love to get a peek inside.
Your photos have sent me off in to a fit of tearful nostalgia and homesickness – in a good way – as I now live in Western Australia.
thanks
hi my mum worked for the meryks as their cook in 1986 we lived in a thatched cottage which was across the road from the cat and fiddle called cat cottage i remember walking up the drive to meet her on an eveing it,s a beutiful building