Visit to Myddelton House and Forty Hall (TBC)

We will travel by shared cars to visit these two properties located in the south of Hertfordshire.

Myddelton House is the headquarters of the Lee Valley Regional Park, so we cannot visit the house. It was built between 1812 and 1818, and you will be able to admire it from the gardens. The gardens were cultivated by a descendant of the original owners, Edward Augustus Bowles (who was an ancestor of Andrew Parker Bowles, the Queen’s first husband). He became known as ‘The Crocus King’. You can read more about it at www.visitleevalley.org.uk/myddelton-house-gardens.

We will have refreshments on arrival and then a private tour of the gardens, led by one of the gardeners. Afterwards you are free to wander at leisure and have lunch, before travelling on to Forty Hall, which is very close by. It is a Grade 1 listed Jacobean manor house, built for a former Lord Mayor of London. The last family to live in it were the Parker Bowles. Read more about it at www.fortyhallestate.co.uk/house-and-garden/house-and-museum.

Price £15 for the two tours.