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Article: Visitor centre worries at historic home are dismissed
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- May 4, 2004
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Brian Dooks
Guardians of the historic landscape around Castle Howard have
expressed concerns about a new visitor centre planned for the
arboretum.
The arboretum is to the west of Castle Howard and lies within the
historic park and garden, which is protected by a Grade I
registration.
The charitable trust linked to the famous Kew Gardens, Kew at
Castle Howard, has 157 acres of trees. Many are rare and endangered
and never previously grown in North Yorkshire.
It the first year the arboretum, received only 273 visitors, but
last year there were 7,000 and now, with the site open every day
except Mondays from March to October, the trust needs to replace its
inadequate prefabricated visitor ...