Mapperton Gardens is a romantic valley garden deep into a lost Dorset combe among tumbling hills and unspoilt countryside. The gardens descend from the great lawn, through the formal topiary down to the woodland garden. The manor house with its church,stable block, coach house, dovecote and courtyard identifies with its countryside, a glorious harmony of golden sandstone. Pevsner's Dorset guide says 'there can hardly be a more enchanting manorial group than Mapperton.'
The house, Elizabethan in origin, enlarged in the late 1670s, is a marvellous example of a West Country manor in harmony with its surroundings, growing into the landscape with every century.
Now the home of the Earl and Countess of Sandwich, Mapperton continues to be a family house and harks back to the restoration of Charles II when the first Earl of Sandwich brought the King back from Holland.
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