5-721: Ness Botanic Gardens are at Ness, Cheshire in the Wirral Peninsula . This is near the cities of Liverpool and Chester and close to the English-Welsh border. They occupy a site of 64 acres overlooking the Dee Estuary . The Ness Botanic Gardens were created by Arthur Kilpin Bulley (1861-1942), a wealthy cotton trader from Liverpool and benefited from collections by many plant hunters including George Forrest and Frank Kingdon-Ward . Arthur Bulley began to create
10-475: Is a village on the Wirral Peninsula , in the part that remains in the ceremonial county of Cheshire , England. It is situated near to the town of Neston , in the unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester . It constitutes part of the Burton & Ness Ward of the district, with the ward having a total population of 1,620 in the 2001 Census . Local attraction Ness Botanic Gardens opened in 1898 and
15-797: Is now administered by the University of Liverpool . Lord Nelson 's mistress, Emma Hamilton , was born in Ness. The Errington Baronetcy , of Ness in the County Palatine of Chester, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 26 June 1963 for the barrister and Conservative politician Eric Errington . The present holder of the title is the 3rd Baronet of Ness, Sir Robin Davenport Errington, Bt. Ness
20-569: The garden in 1898. In 1948, a few years after his death, Lois Bulley , his daughter, gave the gardens, to the University of Liverpool , under a Conditional Trust. One condition of the Trust is that the gardens must remain open to the public. They are on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens and are Grade II. The gardens have many fine specimen trees and flowers. Magnolias, rhododendron, witch-hazels and camellias are some of
25-455: The notable plant-hunted species in the garden. Snowdrop walks are conducted during the flowering season. 53°16′21″N 3°02′35″W / 53.2724°N 3.0430°W / 53.2724; -3.0430 This Cheshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a garden in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ness, Cheshire Ness
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