Classificação do local: 3 Burnham-on-Sea, United Kingdom
.Love the Manor Gardens and visit often and would like it to be given a good sweep with a broom from time to time !
David J.
Classificação do local: 4 London, United Kingdom
This is the main ‘formal’ park in Burnham on Sea. It’s where my Mum used to take my brother and me as toddlers.(We have the ancient-looking black and white photographs to prove it!). The gardens and the whitewashed Manor House were sold to the then local council in 1904 and opened to the public a year later. They have been maintained as formal gardens ever since, with areas of lawn and formally planted beds, surrounded by trees, and a traditional stone wall at the rear. The bandstand in the middle was rebuilt in 1995 as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of VE day. The Manor House was used by the Council as an office, but was sold in 2000 to a charitable trust. Adjacent to the gardens is the oddly-named Crosses Pen, added in 1943 to provide tennis courts, which are still there. AT one time there was a popular putting green here, but it is now a green open space with informal lawns and scattered trees. To the east of the gardens is Burnham’s Bowling Green. The gardens are occasionally the venue for events such as jazz festivals, and can be hired.
