My Visit To Leonardslee Lakes And Gardens< Back To The 80s Concert | Blog | Meal & Movie In Mayfair With A Memorable Lady From Moscow > During my two weeks holiday in August, I did quite a lot as well as visited a number of different and interesting places. One of the places I visited on a nice warm sunny day with my parents was called Leonardslee Lakes and Gardens, which is in Horsham in West Sussex. Dad drove us there, it’s a short distance away from Cranleigh, the village where I currently live. The first thing we saw at Leonardslee was inside the large temperate green house. There were many exotic tropical plants and flowers, as well as large Koi carp gliding through the pool.
We then had a walk round the gardens. It looked very green and lush with the trees, plants, and colourful flowers.
There were a few statues around the gardens.
We came across some buildings and a courtyard. There were some modern art statues and sculptures within the courtyard. A statue of a nude woman was made out of wire netting looked good.
Inside one of the buildings, there was a collection of old cars, which was interesting. They looked more like prams, or carriages for horses to pull.
The exhibition in the other building was fascinating to see. It was a collection of very detailed dollhouses showing scenes from the Victorian era. The dolls and houses were very well made and included schools, big mansions with servants, shops, an art gallery, museum, ballet dancers, and a church with a graveyard. The dolls were in some funny scenarios such as a Policeman about to arrest a drunken man, a lady looking fed up washing clothes, and some artists painting a nude lady. I have included a video, and some pictures I took there.
After we finished looking at the dollhouses, we left and walked to where the lakes were.
The lakes were very nice. We sat by them eating jelly babies.
Some wallabies were hoping around near the banks of the lakes. They were eating some food, which was left on the ground for them to eat.
There were some Lilly flowers on the lake and I spotted a huge fish, which must have been a large carp swimming under the surface of the water.
We walked on further and stopped off at a café within the grounds for a drink.
The next place we saw was a greenhouse that had desert, cactus, and alpine type plants.
After that, we walked round a woodland area that had some unusual trees. One tree looked liked it had a face on its bark.
We left Leonardslee not long after we had walked round the woodland area. It was a pleasant day out.
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Hi Nessa. Thanks for your comment. I'm glad you enjoyed reading my blog and my photos. The monster fish was a very large carp, I only saw part of him through the water when he was swimming near the surface, it looked more like a shark!
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What a lovely place. Thanks for sharing those photos :) Was wondering how the monster fish looked like though!