Longstock Park Water Gardens

Gardens and walks

Enter the garden and you step into one man's vision of paradise. A timeless place of broad vistas, secret nooks and secluded inlets. A sanctuary for wildlife and rare trees and flowers, where every woodland clearing reveals a fresh pleasure. A world of tranquillity, where the seasons are charted by the colours gently rippling in the mirror of the lake and where the calm is only disturbed by the song of falling water or the whir of a startled wren seeking cover.

Shopkeeper, botanist and philanthropist John Spedan Lewis came to his water garden to work and reflect. And now visitors from all over the world share in its enchantment. Set in Longstock Park, it forms part of the 3,750 acre Leckford Estate, owned and managed by the John Lewis Partnership. The Estate includes agricultural land, a fruit farm and natural woodlands as well as a five mile stretch of water meadow alongside the River Test.

The seven-acre garden includes around two and a half acres of lake, which is fed by the Test so that the water remains very clear. It has earned a universal reputation amongst horticulturists - the International Water Lily Society has voted it "the finest water garden in the world."

Longstock Park Water Garden is open to the public on behalf of a charity on the first and third Sunday of the month, from April to September inclusive, from 2pm - 5pm.

Longstock Park Water Gardens
Longstock
Stockbridge
Hampshire
SO20 6EH

01264 810894

www.longstockpark.co.uk/visitfs.htm

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