Thorp Perrow Arboretum & Woodland Garden
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Thorp Perrow Arboretum & Woodland Garden |
| Bedale, North Yorkshire, DL8 2PR | |
| Tel: 01677 425323 | |
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| Email: enquiries@thorpperrow.com | |
| Web site: www. thorpperrow.com | |
| Latitude: 54° 15' 48" N / 54.2651100 | |
| Longitude: 01° 35' 57" W / -1.5991747 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1931 |
| Ownership: | Private, Sir John Ropner |
| Garden code: | PERRO |
| Umbrella organisation: | National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
| Please include actual titles in brackets after the name i.e. Owner, Director/Manager, Curator/Head gardener. If you have other administrative staff, i.e. taxonomists, education officers etc. please add extra rows. | |
| Owner: | Sir John Ropner |
| Contact person: | The Administrator |
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| Policies | |
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| Physical environment | |
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| Soil type: | Boulder clay overlying gravel, with a small area of sandy soil overlying gravel |
| Aspect: | |
| Total area: | 34 ha |
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| Weather records | Records kept |
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| Average annual: | 636 mm |
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| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 74 |
| Genera: | 191 |
| Number of species: | |
| Taxa: | 1744 |
| Accessions: | 3149 |
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| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| 67 Champion trees | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Juglans, Quercus, Fraxinus, Tilia, Laburnum | |
| Special collections: | |
| Fraxinus, NCCPG – 25 Species, 34 Taxa. Juglans, NCCPG – 10 Species, 10 Taxa. Laburnum – 2 Species, 10 Taxa. Tilia, NCCPG – 19 Species, 32 Taxa. | |
| Record Keeping: | Records kept Computerised |
| Record System: | unknown |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | No |
| Identifications: | No |
| Teaching and Education: | Secondary, special courses |
| Interpretation: | Signs, brochures, guided trails |
| Friends Organisation: | Yes |
| Visitor facilities: | Café, plant shop |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Admission charge |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: Dawn-dusk |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| Location map | |
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