| Event Name: | Day Visit to Taplow Court and Cliveden |
| Description: | The two properties are contiguous and not only share a spectacular site above the Thames, but were in common ownership of the Earls of Orkney in the 18th century.
Taplow Court originated as an eleventh-century manor house, but the present house was built in the 19th century in Jacobean revival style in a setting of a Victorian formal garden with adjacent lawns and woodland walks, including a Cedar Walk probably laid out in the early 18th century by Lord Orkney.
The first great house at Cliveden was designed in 1666 by William Winde for the Duke of Buckingham. The present mansion, by Barry for the Duke of Sutherland, dates from 1851. A Bridgeman amphitheatre, woodland walks, and some garden buildings survive from the eighteenth century, but the spectacular parterre overlooking the river was laid out for the Duke of Sutherland. Lord Astor, who bought the property in 1893, was responsible for the Water Garden, the Long Garden, and most of the large collection of sculpture. Norah Lindsay, Geoffrey Jellicoe and Graham Stuart Thomas all worked at Cliveden. The National Trust is carrying out extensive restoration work in the gardens.
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| Type of Event: | Trips - Travel - Excursions |
| Event Agenda: | 10.30 am Meet at Taplow Court and visit the gardens.
ca 12.00 Proceed by car/bicycle to Cliveden for lunch in the Orangery café.
2.00 pm Visit Cliveden Conservation (statuary conservators to the National Trust) with its director, Trevor Proudfoot. This will be followed by an exploration of the grounds led by Richard Wheeler, Curator of Parks and Gardens for the National Trust (south of England).
Travel
Taplow Court (Cliveden Road, Taplow, Berkshire SL6 0ER, street map) is 1 mile north of the A4 on the outskirts of Maidenhead (turn right up Berry Hill if travelling west), and about 2 miles from Taplow station, on the Reading line from Paddington. Taxis are available.
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| Event Location: | travel |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | Outdoors - No Venue |
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| Event Start Date | 21-Jun-10 |