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Norton Priory, Runcorn, Cheshire

Dusty Looking at today's currency converter, admission to Norton museum ruin and walled garden would be Sterling/ dollar …. Adult approx. $10.00 Child approx. $7.00 Tickets just for the walled garden would be equivalent to only $4. It is ...

Veronica, on 01/04/2019

Norton Priory, Runcorn, Cheshire

Dusty, thank you, Isn't it a delight ? The priory itself is open every day but the Walled Garden is open 12pm - 4pm April to October and is closed from November through March. The trees trained against walls such as at Chadkirk and at Norton are ...

Veronica, on 01/04/2019

Norton Priory, Runcorn, Cheshire

I would love to go there...!! The Bee Hotel is quite unique. What types of trees are generally trained against the walls? It looks like an apple, or some type of fruit tree. That gate is gorgeous as well. Can you visit year round, or does ...

dustytoes, on 01/04/2019

Walled Gardens: a review

Thanks for the explanation Frank. I will check out the other garden articles by you and your sister.

dustytoes, on 01/04/2019

Walled Gardens: a review

You don't sound stupid,and never do. Any garden with a wall is walled, but we traditionally use the term to denote any garden with a brick or stone wall of significant height, big enough to shield the plants from winds and land predators and to ...

frankbeswick, on 01/03/2019

Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve Factfile

Vedas the ancient Indian scriptures had a deep impact onshaping the conservation ethos.

pateluday, on 01/02/2019

Walled Gardens: a review

Sorry to sound stupid, but a walled garden is a garden with any type of wall around it? At first I was picturing stone walls, or bricks, but I suppose any type of hedge or trees could wall a garden in. As I read this article, I too want this ...

dustytoes, on 01/02/2019

Walled Gardens: a review

So far climate change has not yet had much effect on the planting of gardens, but the threat is looming. Gardens like Blickley in the drier East of England may find that lawns are unsustainable due to water shortages. Certain great historic ...

frankbeswick, on 01/02/2019

Walled Gardens: a review

While walls may remain, it is more difficult to replant with the same foliage, since climate always is in a state of flux. The plants must be those that thrive at any time, so preserving exactly as was would be impossible.

blackspanielgallery, on 01/02/2019

Walled Gardens: a review

This is my article which details the walled garden at Norton. You two should go here too. It's beautiful. They have an organic apple day every year, https://wizzley.com/norton-priory-west-cheshire/

Veronica, on 01/01/2019

Walled Gardens: a review

This is timely and interesting following my post about Chadkirk Chapel this week. I didn't know we shared a love of walled gardens . I have been to Blickling Hall as you mention. Norton Priory has a superb walled garden one of the best. thank ...

Veronica, on 01/01/2019

Chadkirk Chapel, Cheshire

Thank you for this useful back ground information yet again. Chadkirk was no longer Catholic after the English Reformation. It is a lovely place with great walks which you and your wife may enjoy. It is open at weekends during winter.

Veronica, on 01/01/2019

Chadkirk Chapel, Cheshire

BSG Thank you for this great question. Chadkirk was a very minor chapel and nothing like the great and wealthy abbeys such as Fountains, Jervaulx, Rievaulx, which Henry wanted to gain from. ( amazingly beautiful places if you ever get to UK ) ...

Veronica, on 01/01/2019

Chadkirk Chapel, Cheshire

All ecclesiastical buildings were either destroyed or seized under Henry the Eighth in his great act of theft and vandalism in the late 1530s. Chadkirk survived and was for a time in the eighteenth century used as a place of nonconformist ...

frankbeswick, on 12/31/2018

Where was Jesus Born

Yes. I think that Mary played a major, but almost unrecorded role in the early church. She would have answered questions about Jesus. The Scriptures tell us that Mary pondered the events in her heart Luke 2] The significance of this is that she ...

frankbeswick, on 12/31/2018