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Time, materials and styles were compressed into a
single combination of city, town and rural atmosphere for the United
Kingdom.
Included is a pub in a building reflecting a cluster
of periods and different facades. Viewers traveling an informal
street will find a 1500s-style thatched-roof cottage, a four-story
timber and plaster building, a formal square with a Hyde Park bandstand,
a pre-Georgian plaster building and a formal Palladian exterior
of dressed stone.
A city square with classic formal facades copies a
look found in London and Edinburgh. On other streets are found a
regency multi-porched row building, a town gate and clock tower
representative of York, a 1400s brick-style house, and a plaster
and stone great hall. A promenade shows an exterior facade similar
to Hampton Court.
The perennial garden to the left side of the United Kingdom pavilion
promenade is filled with flowers that attract butterflies and features
a chrysalis box housing numerous butterfly chrysalis. These chrysalis
actually will remain in the box while they develop into butterflies,
and lucky guests may see one in the last stage of development when
the butterfly emerges from its chrysalis.
In the herb garden near the replica of Anne Hathaway’s cottage,
a variety of herbs including rosemary, parsley, spearmint, chives
and sage grow year-round. This is called a knot garden because of
the appearance of knots in the hedges. Farther around the corner
is a hedge maze, with walls of Japanese yew, a plant often used
to create shrub topiaries. Examples of Japanese yew topiaries in
traditional geometric shapes are found in front of The Toy Soldier
shop on the way to Canada.
Dining
It's "Otium Cum Dignitate" at the Rose &
Crown Pub and Dining Room, and if "leisure with dignity" isn't
your idea of a good time, the Bass ale and Guinness stout should
bring you around. There's cottage pie and prime rib on the menu,
and the authentic Harry Ramsden's fish and chips is featured in
a new kiosk.
Desserts are a royal treat: sherry trifle, a traditional dessert
of fruit and custard cake big enough for two; raspberry fool, whipped
cream and crushed raspberries over shortbread; and apple blackberry
crumble, served with sherry custard.
Type - pavilion
Facts/History
A replica of Hampton Court Palace is featured, along with Anne Hataway's
thatched cottage, Hyde Park, Yorkshire & Regency buildings.
The Rose and Crown bears the Latin motto 'Otium Cum Dignitate' ('Leisure
with dignity')
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