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Mottisone Manor
Mottistone Manor, The Longstone and Mottistone
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Appeal on behalf of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice |
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WightCAM is totally
NON-Profit making with
ALL proceeds go to the Earl Mountbatten
Hospice. If you haven't made a donation, please consider doing so to support this
worthwhile charity, or to obtain a full description of the walk, please make a donation between £2 to £5, dependant upon the length of each walk
then E-Mail your request to
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The route description is my recollection of the journey and, whilst
every care has been taken to ensure that it is accurate, it may not
necessarily be an exact or complete description of the overall walk.
Please use this description together with the relevant map to plan your
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This magical garden, with gentle grassy slopes and terraces affording
distant views to the sea, is full of delights and surprises. Surrounding
an attractive Elizabethan manor house (not open) and set in an idyllic
sheltered valley, the 20th-century garden boasts colourful borders and
an organic vegetable plot, as well as Mediterranean-style planting to
take advantage of its extreme southerly location. Its many surprises
include a young olive grove and a traditional tea garden set alongside
The Shack, a unique cabin retreat designed as their summer drawing
office by the architects John Seely (2nd Lord Mottistone) and Paul Paget.
Visitors of all ages are enchanted by Mottistone's cast of Flowerpot
characters, and there are delightful walks from the garden onto the
downs across the adjoining Mottistone Estate. |
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The entrance to Mottistone Manor |
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Panorama of Mottistone Manor |
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Tritoma, Torch Lily or Red Hot Poker |
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Panorama of Mottistone Manor |
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The flower border against the wall |
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The entrance block from the steps |
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Steps leading to the formal gardens |
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| Flower borders along the grass
pathway |
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Mottistone Manor from the
hedged garden |
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Mottistone Manor from the
hedged garden |
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Looking along the flower
beds back to Mottistone
Manor |
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Looking along the
flower beds back to
Mottistone Manor |
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Looking along
the flower beds
back to
Mottistone Manor |
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One of
the National
Trust
helpers |
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'Spaden
Trowel'
One
of a
number
of
flower
pot
figures
dotted
around
the
gardens |
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| The Longstone & Longstone Cotage |
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| Brighstone Forest & Brighstone Down |
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Brighstone Forest & Brighstone Down |
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| Erica in flower with Castle Hill & St Catherines Hill in the distance |
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Looking across Brook Hill House towards West High Down & Tennyson Down |
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Zooming in on the tumuli on Brook Down |
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The gravel track across Mottistone Common with St Catherine's Down, St Catherine's Hill & Gore Cliff in the distance |
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Pictures taken with Fuji FinePix 4700, Fuji FinePix S602 &
latterly, Pentax *ist DS/K10
Panorama Factory software was used to
produce panoramic views |
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Original images taken at maximum resolution, then reduced to 600x400, latterly,
700x466 and compressed
using DCE AutoEnhance to reduce final size
Unfortunately, images on these pages will appear at reduced quality |
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NON-COMMERCIAL purposes and credited to WightCAM |
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