Rhododendrons at Sheringham Park

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Sheringham Park is a landscape park and gardens near the town of Sheringham, Norfolk. The park surrounds Sheringham Hall, which is privately occupied, but the park is in the care of the National Trust and open to visitors. We had visited previously, but not at this time of year.
The park was designed by Humphry Repton (1752-1818) widely regarded as the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, and often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown
In the Park there are fine mature woodlands and a large variety of rhododendrons and azaleas. Several overlook towers provide good views over the gardens, and of the nearby coast and surrounding countryside. Although the one we climbed to the top of gave us a view of - nothing! Wrong lookout!.
The walks through the woods were lovely too, giving us an opportunity to see a Tree creeper, among other birds. A garden temple was constructed in the Park in 1975.



The colours are truly stunning, and, on a clear day like today, were beautiful against the deep blue sky background.



A peek through the trees toward the North sea coastline.



Some close-ups of the blooms.



A carpet of fallen petals.


Sheringham Hall - Designed and built by Humphry Repton and his son John Adey Repton for the Upcher family of Norfolk in 1812-17, romantic Sheringham Hall was Repton’s ‘most favourite work’ and one of his last. This finest of Repton’s ‘creations’, with its elegantly understated Regency house, listed Grade II*, and spectacular landscape setting, showcases both his acclaimed genius as a landscape designer and his less familiar talent as a country-house architect. When Thomas Upcher, who inherited the estate in 1954, died in the mid-1980s, Sheringham Hall and its surrounding park were left to the National Trust, since when the nine-bedroom house and its immediate eight acres of gardens and grounds have been privately let on a long Trust lease.


Soon after leaving the Park, on stopping at a layby for an ice cream, we spotted this swan with her young.

Location: Sheringham Park, Upper Sheringham NR26 8TL,

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