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Gardens are a place to escape the stress and commotion of the outside world, a place to relax and be spiritually and creatively restored. Yet gardens are also products of their time and the unique personalities of their owners. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e80e99375b8de5d61428105/t/5eeb891be60f743cedce1801/1593520319874/20190707_105925.jpg Historic Garden Tours - Tailor Made Garden Jaunts Our customised tours can be designed specifically for your requirements. You may wish just to visit Arts and Crafts gardens, or gardens owned by artist and writers. Contact us to see how we can help and discover, like Mary Lennox in Francis Hodgson Burnett’s ‘The Secret Garden’, “the sweetest, most mysterious place anyone could imagine”. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e80e99375b8de5d61428105/t/5e8f100ec2a92a40be9a8afc/1593520222887/20190609_144657.jpg Historic Garden Tours - About Historic Garden Jaunts We want our guests to bask in the quiet, restorative pleasure of England’s most exceptional gardens while uncovering their secret stories. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e80e99375b8de5d61428105/5e80eba85dad3f3c1539ff4a/5e8c708856235a1ba6de02d1/1586262275565/WP_20160828_15_37_21_Pro+crpped.jpg Historic Garden Tours https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e80e99375b8de5d61428105/5e80eba85dad3f3c1539ff4a/5e8c70887a32914c2775214a/1586262187956/WP_20150614_17_13_45_Pro.jpg Historic Garden Tours https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e80e99375b8de5d61428105/5e80eba85dad3f3c1539ff4a/5e8c73a775d8876f7285e5f2/1586263313985/20190519_110442%2Bpeople%2Bdelete.jpg Historic Garden Tours https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e80e99375b8de5d61428105/5e80eba85dad3f3c1539ff4a/5e8c73a8ec2b7013821753df/1586263321227/20190512_105214.jpg Historic Garden Tours https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e80e99375b8de5d61428105/5e80eba85dad3f3c1539ff4a/5ebaf3ff984e7232b3812c59/1589310527446/Stowe+for+heading+on+main+page.jpg Historic Garden Tours https://www.historicgardenjaunts.com/about-historic-garden-jaunts daily 0.75 2020-07-10 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e80e99375b8de5d61428105/t/5f084e165417cf51de3e8568/1594379803507/PHOTO-2020-07-04-08-29-07.jpg About Historic Garden Jaunts - Sarah Heavens Sarah loves Chelsea Flower Show – she has exhibited antiquarian botanical prints there for twenty years. She also loves country houses, having studied architectural history and worked as an estate agent. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e80e99375b8de5d61428105/t/5ec95b226dad0e25fa7498ab/1590254384105/IMG_4077.jpg About Historic Garden Jaunts - Jim Heavens Jim loves history and loves dressing up. A history graduate from University of Oxford, and with a diploma in gardening history, Jim is fascinated by the stories behind England’s great gardens and country houses and as a natural raconteur enjoys revealing those stories to our guests. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e80e99375b8de5d61428105/t/5ead744ff65ad02006cbaa51/1593520448757/HN_Ellacombe_2.jpg About Historic Garden Jaunts We live in the West Country, in South Gloucestershire, in the village of Bitton, the home of Canon Ellacombe, the famous nineteenth century clergyman gardener. 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