Longstowe Hall

Elizabethan Longstowe Hall was greatly enlarged in the 1880s and 1900s. Spectacular 300ft double borders are filled with perennials, flowering throughout the summer and into the autumn. To the side of the house is a rose garden, with roses, in box-hedged borders, under the surrounding walls, fronted with lavender and trained in swags around a putto balancing on a stone ball.  

The Jockey Club Rooms

The Jockey Club was founded in 1750. In 1752 they bought land in Newmarket and built a coffee house. This was gradually enlarged into the Jockey Club Rooms, which was rebuilt in 1933, incorporated the original coffee house. The Rooms now contain an unparalleled collection of equine paintings. We will be given a tour of the Rooms followed by lunch.

Ousden House

Arabella Lennox-Boyd gave initial advice on the garden and the house looks out over yew-hedged herbaceous borders towards a rose garden and the park beyond.Further from the house, the garden becomes more informal; a bog garden fills a former moat, and the woodland garden is maturing fast. Beyond this a beech wood runs down to the tranquil expanse of the lake.