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Child Friendly Gardens in the UK
Set out below are Child friendly gardens in the UK including Kedleston Hall. Our Child friendly gardens offer a variety of interesting features to keep the young ones amused whilst teaching them about their surroundings and environment.
Kedleston Hall
Derby
Children of all ages welcome
Kedleston Hall´s pleasure grounds and landscaped park were laid out by the 1st Lord Scarsdale, with designs and buildings by Robert Adam. A feature is the Long Walk, which swings round to the south of the house, giving extensive views. The pleasure... more
Thorp Perrow Arboretum
Bedale
Children of all ages welcome
Thorp Perrow Arboretum, Woodland Garden & Falconry Centre, the arboretum has 85 acres of woodland walks. It is one of the largest and rarest collections of trees and shrubs in the north of England and holds five National Collections - Ash, Lime,... more
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Newstead Abbey Park & Gardens
Ravenshead
Children of all ages welcome
The gardens and parkland at Newstead Abbey, once the home of the Poet Lord Byron, cover more than 300 acres with paths that meander past lakes, ponds and waterfalls. The gardens have something to offer in all seasons, with spectacular displays of... more
Trengwainton Garden
Madron, Penzance
Children of all ages welcome
The sheltered 20th century Trengwainton Garden has an abundance of exotic trees and shrubs. Intimate and closely linked to the picturesque stream running through its valley, the garden contains a rich collection of speciality acacias and large-leaved... more
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Brookside, Bateman Street, Cambridge
Children of all ages welcome
The heritage-listed Cambridge University Botanic Garden was the vision of John Henslow, mentor to Charles Darwin. Today the Garden is a showcase for over 8000 plant species from around the world, including nine national collections, all immaculately... more
Chippenham Park
Chippenham, Ely
Children of all ages welcome (There are several stretches of open water, care to be taken)
Stunning daffodil and snowdrops displays in spring have made Chippenham Gardens a must-see for horticultural fans in and around Cambridgeshire. These gorgeous grounds have been the setting for idyllic country strolls since the 16th century when... more
Renishaw Hall
Renishaw Park, Sheffield
Children of all ages welcome
The formal garden at Renishaw Hall, originally laid out in 1895 has undergone a remarkable restoration, enhancing the geometric design whilst retaining yew hedges, pyramids and antique statues. Mixed borders, rose and clematis gardens, and a host of... more
Abbeywood Gardens
Chester Road, Delamere, Northwich
Children of all ages welcome
The Rowlinson family have lived at Abbeywood since 1987, during which time they have made many improvements and additions to the gardens.The Garden is divided into separate areas by impressive yew hedges. The Pool, Chapel and Pergola Gardens are... more
Dunrobin Castle Gardens
Golspie
Children of all ages welcome
The formal gardens, with their arrangement of parterres inspired by the gardens at Versailles, present an impressive spectacle, especially when viewed from the Castle Terrace. It is planted in part with bright bedding and in part with bulbs and... more
Biddulph Grange Garden
Grange Road, Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent
Children of all ages welcome
The Biddulph Grange Garden is a rare and exciting survival of a high Victorian garden restored by the National Trust. The Garden is divided into a series of themed gardens within a garden, with a Chinese Temple, Eqyptian court, Pinetum, Dahlia walk,... more
Cawdor Castle and Gardens
Cawdor Castle, Nairn
Children of all ages welcome
The oldest garden north east of Cawdor Castle was enclosed with walls and bastions in 1620, and cultivated in the old fashioned manner where soft fruits, flowers, vegetables and fruit trees were mingled closely together. Today this garden has been... more
Falkland Palace & Garden
Falkland, Cupar
Children of all ages welcome
Falkland Palace & Garden was designed and cultivated by Percy Cane between 1947 and 1952. There are attractive parterres, herbaceous borders, lush green lawns and many unusual bold shrubs, an orchard and huge quantities of delphiniums in June, as... more
Hidcote Manor Garden
Hidcote Bartrim, Chipping Campden
Children of all ages welcome
Twisting lanes of the Cotswold countryside lead to Hidcote Manor Garden, one of the most inventive and influential gardens of the 20th century. Its structure of outdoor `rooms´, linked by vistas and furnished with all sorts of topiary, recalls both... more
Kiftsgate Court
Chipping Campden
Children of all ages welcome
Kiftsgate Court Gardens is a series of interconnecting gardens each with its distinct character and secrets. The gardens are a plantsman´s delight with species from all over the world. A glorious garden of roses, perennials and much more, around a... more
RHS Garden Harlow Carr
Crag Lane, Beckwithshaw, Harrogate
Children of all ages welcome
The RHS Garden at Harlow Carr is a beautiful informal Yorkshire garden which delights and inspires the whole family! Wander through tranquil surroundings and find inspiration in the innovative and dramatic Main Borders....Stroll along along the... more
Osborne House
East Cowes, Isle of Wight
Children of all ages welcome
Osborne House and gardens were originally designed by Prince Albert and Cubitt. The Italianate designs for the terraced formal gardens, complement the house. They have been restored to their Victorian layout and are planted in seasonally changing... more
Ickworth
The Rotunda, Horringer, Bury St Edmunds
Children of all ages welcome
The gardens at Ickworth were designed to reflect the Italianate nature of the remarkable late 18th century house commissioned by Frederick Augustus Hervey, the extraordinary 4th Earl of Bristol. Heavily wooded garden with yews, evergreen oak and box... more
Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses
Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Children of all ages welcome
This ‘oasis of delight’ features over 7000 plants shrubs and trees including rare specimens, set in beautiful landscaped gardens. These include Rose Garden, Alpine Yard, Woodland and Rhododendron Walks, Rock Pool and Diamond Jubilee Cascade and Lawn... more
Mount Stuart Gardens
Isle of Bute
Children of all ages welcome
Mount Stuart´s gardens date back to circa 1717 when the 2nd Earl of Bute started to lay out substantial grounds - the beginning of the three hundred acres of wilderness, woodland and designed landscape that can be enjoyed today. The 19th century saw... more
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Greenway
Greenway Road, Galmpton, Brixham
Children of all ages welcome
Greenway is a secret woodland garden, situated on the banks of the River Dart. A garden of exceptional beauty with an atmosphere of romantic wilderness and mystery, and is currently under restoration. The pleasant rambling paths scattered with... more
Stourhead
Stourton, Warminster
Children of all ages welcome
Stourhead is a fine example of English landscape gardens from the 18th century, re-planted in the 19th century with Conifers, flowering trees and shrubs. Follow a route anti-clockwise around the lake to gradually experience the sequence of arcadian... more
Copped Hall
Stables Courtyard, Epping
Children of all ages welcome
Copped Hall: This is a garden under restoration with touches of Tudor, Georgian and Victorian. It is a garden of varying levels, lawns, trees and 'garden theatre'. It is a garden to visit repeatedly over the years to follow the restoration. We have a... more
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Audley End House & Gardens
Saffron Walden
Children of all ages welcome
Audley End House & Gardens has an artificial lake, created with water from the River Cam, running through delightful 18th century pastoral parkland designed by Capability Brown. The classical Temple of Concorde, built in 1790 in honour of George III,... more
Hawkstone Historic Park & Follies
Weston under Redcastle, Shrewsbury
Children of all ages welcome
The gardens at Hawkestone Park Follies is a unique tourist attraction that covers over 100 acres of parkland. It was created in the 18th century and has intricate pathways, caves, tunnels, bridges, arches, moss-covered gloomy ravines, terrifying... more
The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens
Jermyns Lane, Ampfield, Romsey
Children of all ages welcome
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens is one of the most important modern plant collections in the world. Established in 1953 by the distinguished plantsman Sir Harold Hillier, the magnificent collection of over 42,000 plants from temperate regions around the... more
Michelham Priory Gardens
Upper Dicker, Hailsham
Children of all ages welcome
Michelham Priory´s 7 acre beautiful and tranquil gardens are set on a moated island. Originally this was an Augustinian Priory. The longest water-filled medieval moat in England is home to a myriad of wildlife, while the grounds are planted with a... more
Felley Priory
Underwood
Children of all ages welcome
Felley Priory is a garden for all seasons - with its ancient walls, yew hedges and topiary, snowdrops, hellebores, an orchard of daffodils, herbaceous borders and an old-fashioned rose garden with over 90 different varieties of roses and many late... more
The Manor
Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon
Children of all ages welcome (Over 3)
The Manor: The moated Norman manor, c 1130, was the home of Lucy M Boston from 1939 and the setting for her Green Knowe children´s books. Lucy gradually laid out the garden over several years, bordering the path from the river to the house with... more
Mannington Gardens
Mannington Hall, Norwich
Children of all ages welcome
Mannington Gardens are set around a medieval moated manor house and feature a wide variety of plants, trees and shrubs in many different settings. Throughout the gardens are thousands of roses especially classic varieties. The Heritage Rose and 20th... more
Sausmarez Manor
St. Martin, Guernsey
Children of all ages welcome (Children must be accompanied)
Sausmarez Manor Gardens: A wild Subtropical Garden with groves of 40 different Bamboos, Tree Ferns, Banana and Palm Trees, making an exciting and unusual lush green experience topped off with the largest selection of contemporary sculpture in the... more
Waddesdon Manor
Waddesdon, Aylesbury
Children of all ages welcome
Waddesdon Manor and gardens were bequeathed to the National Trust by the Rothschilds in 1957. The garden today is essentially the one laid out by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild and his French landscape designer Elie Laine. It is one of the finest... more
Tyntesfield
Wraxall, Bristol
Children of all ages welcome
Tyntesfield, the original garden is thought to have been laid out in the 1840´s. Currently there is a huge restoration project underway to bring this impressive estate back to its former glory. The garden is Grade II* listed and is one of the top 500... more
Parham Gardens
Parham Park, Storrington
Children of all ages welcome
There are two gardens at Parham - the 18th century Pleasure Grounds, 7 acres of rolling lawns leading gently down to the brick and turf maze and lake, specimen trees, with fine vistas to the South Downs - and the magnificent 4 acre walled garden with... more
Polesden Lacey
Great Bookham, Dorking
Children of all ages welcome
Polesden Lacey has a 30 acre garden spanning several centuries, with a long terrace walk offering fine views across the valley. The Edwardian walled garden is formally planted including yew hedges. The walled rose garden is divided into four squares... more
Whalton Manor Gardens
Whalton Manor, Whalton, Morpeth
Children of all ages welcome
Whalton Manor, dating from the 17th century was altered by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1908. The gardens were designed by Lutyens with the help of Gertrude Jekyll and include many of his architectural gems ,including pergolas, summerhouses and a vast stone... more
Marle Place Gardens and Gallery
Marle Place Road, Brenchley, Tonbridge
Children of all ages welcome (Parental supervision at all times.)
Marle Place is a privately owned, mature, award-winning garden; with ten acres of formal planting and many more of woodland. Tucked away up a Wealden lane, the garden surrounds the Jacobean house with its massive chimney stack. Our peaceful garden is... more
Hever Castle & Gardens
Edenbridge
Children of all ages welcome
The spectacular Edwardian gardens at Hever Castle were laid out between 1904 and 1908 by Joseph Cheal & Son. One of the most magnificent areas of the gardens is the Italian Garden, which was designed to display William Waldorf Astor´s collection of... more
Knebworth House Gardens
Knebworth, Stevenage
Children of all ages welcome
At Knebworth House the present 25 acre garden dates largely from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, with more recent and continuing restoration and additions. Sir Edwin Lutyens re-designed the formal gardens immediate to the House. Each of the `rooms´... more
Cliveden
Taplow, Maidenhead
Children of all ages welcome
Everybody over the age of 40 has heard of Clivedon, scene of much scandal during the Profumo Affair back in the 1960s. But this classic English estate has much more to offer than stories of shamed government ministers. Set high above the River Thames... more
Godinton House & Gardens
Godinton Lane, Ashford
Children of all ages welcome
Godinton House and Gardens are set in a beautiful 18th century landscaped park with views across the countryside. The formal gardens include terraced lawns, topiary, formal pond, rose garden and herbaceous borders all surrounded by a vast yew hedge... more
Ness Botanic Gardens
Ness, Neston, South Wirral, Neston
Children of all ages welcome
Britain’s Finest likes nothing more than a stroll through a botanic garden, encountering a blaze of colour at every turn and admiring the collection of plant life that someone else has put together at great pains for the delectation of the public.... more
Groombridge Place Gardens
Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells
Children of all ages welcome
Originally laid out in the 17th century, Groombridge Place Gardens was unseen for three hundred years except by a favoured few. Designed as outside rooms of the House, over the centuries new plants and trees have been introduced. Beautiful wrought... more
Hoveton Hall
Wroxham, Norwich
Children of all ages welcome
Enjoy a family day out at Hoveton Hall Gardens. There is something for everyone to enjoy including the new and improved children’s activity trails, the recently restored rare 19th century glasshouse, guided tours of the gardens and the extensive... more
Dudmaston
Quatt, Bridgnorth
Children of all ages welcome
Dudmaston is a delightful late 18th, early 19th century 8 acre garden, which is a mass of colour in spring with rhododendrons, azaleas viburnums and daffodils. Recently replanted herbaceous borders, roses, a bog garden and maples give later colour.... more
Mellerstain House & Gardens
Gordon
Children of all ages welcome
Mellerstain garden designed by Reginald Bloomfield in 1910 is a series of three balustrade terraces leading to a sweeping lawn descending to a lake. The middle terrace is the largest, with an intricate parterre on either side of a central pavement,... more
Hughenden Manor
High Wycombe
Children of all ages welcome
Hughenden Manor garden is re-created from the colourful 1860s designs of Benjamin Disraeli´s wife, Mary Anne, used as his private retreat from the rigours of parliamentary life in London. The lawns and terraces have been planted once more with loud,... more
Kingston Lacy
Wimborne Minster
Children of all ages welcome
Beside the Kingston Lacy house is the late-Victorian formal garden. Bright bedding, a fern garden containing 25 different varieties of ferns with gravel paths running between irregular raised beds, roses and spring bulbs, with meandering shrubberies... more
Marwood Hill Gardens
Marwood, Barnstaple
Children of all ages welcome
Award Winning ´Garden of Excellence´ - Marwood Hill is a private 20 acre informal garden with three lakes, plant centre and garden tea room set in a sheltered valley. With extensive collections of camellias under glass and in the open. Three national... more
Cholmondeley Castle Garden
Malpas
Children of all ages welcome
Cholmondeley Castle has extensive ornamental gardens set in idyllic parkland dominated by the romantic Gothic Castle built in 1801 of local sandstone. There is an extensive range of mainly acid-loving trees and shrubs, designed to take advantage of... more
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