Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens

Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens
Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens
	The Parterre in the North Gardens
Location	Castle Bromwich, Solihull, England
OS grid	SP142898
Coordinates	52°30′21″N1°47′32″W / 52.50591°N 1.79222°W Coordinates: 52°30′21″N1°47′32″W / 52.50591°N 1.79222°W
Area	10 acres (40,000 m2)
Operated by	Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens Trust
Website	castlebromwichhallgardens.org.uk

Last updated March 18, 2019

Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens are situated adjacent to the west side of Castle Bromwich Hall, a Jacobean Mansion. They are in the old centre of Castle Bromwich, a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull of the English West Midlands area.

Castle Bromwich Hall is a Jacobean Mansion in the Castle Bromwich area of Birmingham, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

The Metropolitan Borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands, in west-central England. It is named after its largest town, Solihull, from which Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is based. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of seven boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region. Much of the large residential population in the north of the borough centres on the communities of Castle Bromwich, Chelmsley Wood, Fordbridge, Kingshurst, Marston Green and Smith's Wood. In the south are the towns of Solihull and Shirley.

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History

Castle Bromwich Hall was built between 1557 and 1585 by Sir Edward Devereux, the first MP for Tamworth. Sir Orlando Bridgeman bought the Hall and Gardens in 1657 for his son, Sir John Bridgeman I. He made changes to both around the year 1700 advised by his cousin, Captain William Winde. The gardens were designed as a formal arrangement of self-contained garden areas. Some of these were ornamental and some working. They were separated by walls, hedges or level-changes at terraces. On the death of Sir John Bridgeman I in 1710 his son, Sir John Bridgeman II, continued to extend the Gardens westwards until they reached their present size of 10 acres (40,000 m²). He also improved the Hall.

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The Gardens were developed by further generations of the family, later to become the Earls of Bradford. Lady Ida Bridgeman was the last member of the family to live at the Hall before her death in 1936 and the Gardens were well looked after again under her care. The Hall was then rented out and they fell into decline. A planning application was made in 1982 for the building of housing. Luckily, the planning inspectors employed by West Midlands County Council realized the importance of the Gardens and resisted development. The housing proposal went to appeal and was refused. It was decided that restoration was essential and work started to clear the undergrowth and repair the damage caused by vandals. The Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens Trust was formed to restore and maintain them. In 1986 the Gardens and adjoining Parkland was listed as Grade II*.

Features

These 10 acres (40,000 m²) walled Baroque gardens are listed grade II* and are the only remaining example in the country of a formal English garden design. They are being restored as near as possible to the period 1680–1740, which was when they were at their best, and contain over 600 species of plants from the time.

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A DVD of the gardens by Great Britain Online is available.

Opening times

The Gardens are open Monday-Friday from 11am until 3pm from 1 November until 31 March, except speciel events. From 1 April until 31 October we are open Monday-Friday, 11am to 4pm, and on weekends and bank holidays are open 12:30pm until 4:30pm.

The Hall and other buildings are privately owned. Castle Bromwich Hall itself is now a hotel. All buildings and the gardens closest to the house can be seen from the Gardens or roads.

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