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Wakehurst, previously known as Wakehurst Place, is a house and botanic gardens in West Sussex, England, owned by the National Trust but used and managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew). It is near Ardingly , West Sussex in the High Weald ( grid reference TQ340315), and comprises a late 16th-century mansion, a mainly 20th-century ...
After being awarded a Millennium Commission grant in 1995, the project commenced in 1996, and is now housed in the Wellcome Trust Millennium Building situated in the grounds of Wakehurst Place, West Sussex. Its purpose is to provide an "insurance policy" against the extinction of plants in the wild by storing seeds for future use.
Wakehurst and Chiddingly Woods is a 155.9-hectare (385-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Crawley in West Sussex, England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, [ 3 ] and part of it is a Geological Conservation Review site.
The project, located at Wakehurst Place, in West Sussex, in the High Weald of southern England (grid reference), is dedicated to enhancing the resilience and coherence of the UK's ecological networks by improving the quality, quantity, and diversity of UK seed species available for use in conservation, rehabilitation, and restoration projects.
A Coronation Meadow was established at Wakehurst Place in 2016, using seed from Bedelands Farm Nature Reserve in West Sussex. [8] The 90th meadow was established in 2016 as The Queen's Meadow within London's Green Park .
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Wakehurst (formerly known as Wakehurst Place), a property owned by the National Trust and managed by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, located near Ardingly, West Sussex, southern England; Schools: Wakehurst Public School in Belrose, a suburb of Sydney, Australia; Peerage: Baron Wakehurst, of Ardingly in the County of Sussex, is a title in the ...
Pages in category "Grade II* listed parks and gardens in West Sussex" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Wakehurst Place; West Dean House