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Stockton Bury Gardens的点评
点评：Yesterday my partner & I, with a friend, visited Stockton Bury Gardens, a delightful garden which we'd last visited many years ago.
Our visit yesterday was an outing for our elderly friend who'd not been there before & who cannot walk as easily as he once did, so we'd hired a wheelchair from a wonderful company in Hereford.
I should note at this point incidentally that our elderly friend weighs in at only around 11 stone, so no great weight.
On the garden's website I had read in the preceding days that 'Approximately 70% of the garden is accessible to wheelchairs' & although on arrival we read an information board which described accessibility as being about 50% (rather than 70%) we were not put off by that.
We paid our entrance fees to the very friendly & helpful member of staff in the entrance building & as we started out it was a pleasure to see the adjacent buildings looking as lovely as I remembered.
As it had been so many years since my last visit (& having read that parts of the gardens are accessible to wheelchair users) I had expected that changes must therefore have been made to some of the paths, but I was terribly disappointed to find almost immediately that this is not the case.
My partner & I are thankful to be able bodied & we are accustomed to pushing & manoeuvring a wheelchair on various types of terrain, but many parts of the supposedly accessible route here are 'extremely challenging' to say the least.
Whilst the surface close to the entrance building is tarmacked, once beyond that area the paths are mainly grass. At one change of level (to & fro a flagstone path) there is a small ramp, so surely clearly intended for wheelchairs, but the steepness of the ramp makes it very hard to use even for those of us who have strength & plenty of pushing power!
We ended what turned out to be of necessity a disappointingly short time going around (a relatively small proportion of) the gardens with a pleasant sit-down with refreshments outside the beautiful barn café, beside the pretty orchard - a relief for my partner & I to sit down after an unexpectedly arduous time & a relief for our elderly friend too, whose comfort was very much compromised by the terrain.
Whilst the café itself & the outside seating area is wheelchair accessible, there was no indication of any accessible toilet facilities - none of us had occasion to require use of a toilet, but I did see a sign to one for the able-bodied - sited at the top of a short, but quite steep little slope.
I can only say then that I find it hard to believe that whoever has designated the gardens as wheelchair-accessible has never actually pushed someone of average weight in a wheelchair around the paths.
I expect that my partner & I may visit again at some time in the future, but we will never again bring someone in a wheelchair & at £10.50 each I felt that our visit was extremely poor value indeed, given the aforementioned lack of accessibility.
In conclusion then, I would very strongly advise those confined to wheelchairs to forego visiting these particular gardens.
Our visit yesterday was an outing for our elderly friend who'd not been there before & who cannot walk as easily as he once did, so we'd hired a wheelchair from a wonderful company in Hereford.
I should note at this point incidentally that our elderly friend weighs in at only around 11 stone, so no great weight.
On the garden's website I had read in the preceding days that 'Approximately 70% of the garden is accessible to wheelchairs' & although on arrival we read an information board which described accessibility as being about 50% (rather than 70%) we were not put off by that.
We paid our entrance fees to the very friendly & helpful member of staff in the entrance building & as we started out it was a pleasure to see the adjacent buildings looking as lovely as I remembered.
As it had been so many years since my last visit (& having read that parts of the gardens are accessible to wheelchair users) I had expected that changes must therefore have been made to some of the paths, but I was terribly disappointed to find almost immediately that this is not the case.
My partner & I are thankful to be able bodied & we are accustomed to pushing & manoeuvring a wheelchair on various types of terrain, but many parts of the supposedly accessible route here are 'extremely challenging' to say the least.
Whilst the surface close to the entrance building is tarmacked, once beyond that area the paths are mainly grass. At one change of level (to & fro a flagstone path) there is a small ramp, so surely clearly intended for wheelchairs, but the steepness of the ramp makes it very hard to use even for those of us who have strength & plenty of pushing power!
We ended what turned out to be of necessity a disappointingly short time going around (a relatively small proportion of) the gardens with a pleasant sit-down with refreshments outside the beautiful barn café, beside the pretty orchard - a relief for my partner & I to sit down after an unexpectedly arduous time & a relief for our elderly friend too, whose comfort was very much compromised by the terrain.
Whilst the café itself & the outside seating area is wheelchair accessible, there was no indication of any accessible toilet facilities - none of us had occasion to require use of a toilet, but I did see a sign to one for the able-bodied - sited at the top of a short, but quite steep little slope.
I can only say then that I find it hard to believe that whoever has designated the gardens as wheelchair-accessible has never actually pushed someone of average weight in a wheelchair around the paths.
I expect that my partner & I may visit again at some time in the future, but we will never again bring someone in a wheelchair & at £10.50 each I felt that our visit was extremely poor value indeed, given the aforementioned lack of accessibility.
In conclusion then, I would very strongly advise those confined to wheelchairs to forego visiting these particular gardens.
翻译：昨天，我和伴侣再加上一位朋友一同游览了斯托克顿伯里花园。这是一座非常美丽的花园，我们上一次造访还是很多年前的事了。
这次出游主要是为了让这位年事已高的朋友也能参与其中。他以前从未去过那里，而且如今走路也不如从前方便了，因此我们从赫里福德的一家优质公司租了一辆轮椅。
顺便提一下，这位老朋友的体重只有约11英石左右，其实并不算重。前几天我在花园的网站上看到：“花园中大约70%的区域可供轮椅通行。”虽然抵达后我们看到一块信息牌上写着可通行区域比例约为50%（而非70%），但这并未使我们却步。
我们在入口处的服务处向一位非常友善且乐于助人的工作人员支付了门票费用。出发后，看到周围的建筑依旧如我记忆中那般美丽，真是令人心悦。由于我上次到访已是很多年前的事了（而且我读过相关资料，知道花园的某些区域轮椅使用者也能进入），我原以为园内的部分步道肯定也做了相应改造。然而，很快我就失望地发现事实并非如此。
我和我的伴侣都身体健康，也习惯在各种地形上推着轮椅行动。不过，这条号称“易于通行”的路线上，很多路段至少可以说是“极其艰难”的。
虽然入口处附近的路面铺有柏油，但再往前走，小径就大多是草地了。在一处地势有高低起伏的地方（从一条石板路过渡到另一条），有一个小坡道——显然是专为轮椅使用者设计的，但由于坡度太陡，就连我们这些体力充沛、有足够的推力的人用起来都十分困难！我们原本在花园里游览的计划，最终由于种种原因不得不缩短——不过我们还是在那座漂亮的谷仓咖啡馆外，在美丽的果园旁坐下来休息并享用了茶点。对于我和我的伴侣来说，能在经历了意想不到的艰辛之后坐下来休息真是莫大的慰藉；对我们那位年事已高的朋友而言亦是如此，崎岖的地形着实让他感到很吃力。
这家咖啡馆本身及其室外用餐区都是可以供轮椅通行的。没有任何迹象表明这里有可供使用的厕所设施——我们几个人都没有需要使用厕所的情况，不过我确实看到了一个面向健全人的厕所指示牌，它位于一段虽短却相当陡峭的小坡坡顶上。
因此我只能说，实在难以相信那些认定该花园适合轮椅使用者通行的人，从未真正推着体重正常的残障人士沿着园内的小径行走过。
预计我和我的伴侣将来某个时候还会再来参观。不过，我们再也不会带坐轮椅的人来了。考虑到上述无障碍设施的缺失，每张门票10.50英镑的价格实在让我们觉得这次参观毫无性价比可言。
综上所述，我强烈建议那些需要依靠轮椅行动的人不要来参观这座花园。
这次出游主要是为了让这位年事已高的朋友也能参与其中。他以前从未去过那里，而且如今走路也不如从前方便了，因此我们从赫里福德的一家优质公司租了一辆轮椅。
顺便提一下，这位老朋友的体重只有约11英石左右，其实并不算重。前几天我在花园的网站上看到：“花园中大约70%的区域可供轮椅通行。”虽然抵达后我们看到一块信息牌上写着可通行区域比例约为50%（而非70%），但这并未使我们却步。
我们在入口处的服务处向一位非常友善且乐于助人的工作人员支付了门票费用。出发后，看到周围的建筑依旧如我记忆中那般美丽，真是令人心悦。由于我上次到访已是很多年前的事了（而且我读过相关资料，知道花园的某些区域轮椅使用者也能进入），我原以为园内的部分步道肯定也做了相应改造。然而，很快我就失望地发现事实并非如此。
我和我的伴侣都身体健康，也习惯在各种地形上推着轮椅行动。不过，这条号称“易于通行”的路线上，很多路段至少可以说是“极其艰难”的。
虽然入口处附近的路面铺有柏油，但再往前走，小径就大多是草地了。在一处地势有高低起伏的地方（从一条石板路过渡到另一条），有一个小坡道——显然是专为轮椅使用者设计的，但由于坡度太陡，就连我们这些体力充沛、有足够的推力的人用起来都十分困难！我们原本在花园里游览的计划，最终由于种种原因不得不缩短——不过我们还是在那座漂亮的谷仓咖啡馆外，在美丽的果园旁坐下来休息并享用了茶点。对于我和我的伴侣来说，能在经历了意想不到的艰辛之后坐下来休息真是莫大的慰藉；对我们那位年事已高的朋友而言亦是如此，崎岖的地形着实让他感到很吃力。
这家咖啡馆本身及其室外用餐区都是可以供轮椅通行的。没有任何迹象表明这里有可供使用的厕所设施——我们几个人都没有需要使用厕所的情况，不过我确实看到了一个面向健全人的厕所指示牌，它位于一段虽短却相当陡峭的小坡坡顶上。
因此我只能说，实在难以相信那些认定该花园适合轮椅使用者通行的人，从未真正推着体重正常的残障人士沿着园内的小径行走过。
预计我和我的伴侣将来某个时候还会再来参观。不过，我们再也不会带坐轮椅的人来了。考虑到上述无障碍设施的缺失，每张门票10.50英镑的价格实在让我们觉得这次参观毫无性价比可言。
综上所述，我强烈建议那些需要依靠轮椅行动的人不要来参观这座花园。
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