Tudor Croft Snowdrops Event

Tudor Croft is a unique house with perhaps the only large private garden built in Teesside in the interwar years which still shows the rare survival of an emerging interwar style, between full-blown arts and crafts and towards a less formal style. The house was bult by well-known brick manufacturer Ron Crossley in 1934 and he chose Backhouse of York to design the garden. The Heagney family has owned Tudor Croft since 1952. When they moved in the garden had become very overgrown and it took ten years to restore with the help of two full-time gardeners and the family members.

Since Mike Heagney’s retirement, he has devoted his time to the 5-acre garden with a rose pergola of 48 pillars built of different Crossley bricks, the fernery and rock garden, water gardens, a trout stream and much more. Join us with Mike for a tour of the garden which will include his collection of more than 300 hundred varieties of snowdrops.

Lunch will be provided, soup and a roll, after which there will be time to buy snowdrops and spring bulbs. Any profits from this visit are very generously being given to the Trust’s grant schemes by Mike and Gel Heagney.

Please wear suitable footwear as the garden paths maybe muddy.

Tickets cost: £14.00 YGT members, £16.00 non-members

includes tea/coffee on arrival and lunch.

Further details including directions will be sent to ticket holders in advance of the event

Tickets for all events will be available electronically, using Eventbrite as last year. Each event has its own link to the Eventbrite page which will allow you to book a ticket.  The Eventbrite page will give you the name, date and time, location, refund policy and description which includes information about directions and parking. We are sorry but you can only book tickets for one event at a time.

If you want to buy tickets for multiple events on-line, please use the booking form and send this to events@yorkshiregardenstrust.org.uk. Please pay for your tickets on-line by bank transfer to Yorkshire Gardens Trust, Reference ‘Surname’ Events, Sort Code 05-09-94, Account No 25555237, or you can send a cheque to Lynn Watkinson, 5 Belle Vue Terrace, Bellerby, Leyburn DL8 5QL. Tickets will be sent to you by email.

If you are unable to buy tickets on-line, please can you either ask a friend or relative who has access to the internet to buy the tickets for you either using Eventbrite or using the booking form as above. Payment can be made by bank transfer to Yorkshire Gardens Trust, Reference Events, Sort Code 05-09-94 Account No 25555237, or you can send a cheque to Lynn Watkinson, 5 Belle Vue Terrace, Bellerby, Leyburn DL8 5QL. Tickets will be sent to you by email.

Otherwise please post the booking form with your selection of events, a self-addressed envelope and a cheque made out to Yorkshire Gardens Trust to Lynn Watkinson, 5 Belle Vue Terrace, Bellerby, Leyburn DL8 5QL.