Bourne Hill Gardens and Wyndham Arms

 Tour leader and host: Neil Beagrie

Salisbury is replete with gem locations that are easily overlooked, or worse taken for granted. At Bourne Hill is an eighteenth-century town garden that had been improved by Richard Woods, probably in the 1770s, replacing an earlier formal garden that was associated with St Edmund’s College. Founded in the thirteenth century, it was converted to a private residence in the Dissolution. The collegiate building has been replaced by a fine Georgian house, incorporating the earthwork remains of Salisbury’s former city ramparts as a garden feature to the East. Among the other interesting garden features are a monument celebrating the site of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and a porch relocated from Salisbury cathedral.

We aim to finish outside the Wyndham Arms at 4pm. For those who need refreshment after such a cultural experience, a selection of beers from a well-known local brewery will be on offer

We are limited to 20 visitors.

Meet: Front Car Park of Bourne Hill 2:45.

Start time: 3.00pm

Duration: One hour

Tickets: £7.50. Bookings through Eventbrite Bourne Hill Gardens and Wyndham Arms