Sculpture Gardens in the UK

Bakewell, Derbyshire  
Chatsworth with its 105 acre garden is a magical landscape, beautiful in all seasons. It has evolved over more than 450 years, and continues to change... more

Melbourne, Derbyshire  
Melbourne Hall gardens were planned by Rt Hon Thomas Coke in the early 18th century. The colourful and tranquil gardens are designed with paths intersected by... more

Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire  
Bourton House is a modern, medium-sized but truly opulent garden made around a glorious old house, and maintained very crisply indeed. Originally planted in the 1960s... more

School Lane, Blockley, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire  
Mill Dene Garden is hidden away in the Cotswolds and is a garden to nourish your senses. Horticultural skill is carried lightly but you will still... more

Kington, Herefordshire  
The gardens at Hergest Croft have been created over 100 years by 3 generations of the Bank´s family. There are hidden valleys, open parkland, woodland glades,... more

Belvoir, Grantham, Leicestershire  
Belvoir Castle gardens surround the rustic summerhouse, dating from 1800. The gardens have been lovingly restored to their original beauty, set in a natural ampitheatre with... more

Northampton, Northamptonshire  
Cottesbrooke Hall´s award winning gardens are set in delightful rural Northamptonshire. Reputed to be the pattern for Jane Austen´s `Mansfield Park´. Huge 300-year-old cedars set off... more

Buttery Lane, Teversal Old Village, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire  
Teversal Manor Gardens are approached through an avenue of lime trees. It has a beautiful ornamental pond garden with its own microclimate, enabling unusual tender plants... more

Quatt, Bridgnorth, Shropshire  
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.... more

Wollerton, Market Drayton, Shropshire  
Wollerton Old Hall is everybody´s idea of a luscious modern garden, started in 1984, planned, planted and cared for to a very high standard. A series... more

Quy Road, Lode, Cambridgeshire  
Anglesey Abbey has a hundred-acre garden developed from 1926 by the 1st Lord Fairhaven presenting an imposing blend of formal 17th century French-style and 18th century... more

Marsh Lane, Gilden Way, Harlow, Essex  
The Gibberd Garden is a highly individual creation of Sir Frederick Gibberd, the master planner of Harlow New Town. It is sited on the side of... more

King's Lynn, Norfolk  
Houghton Hall Walled Garden is a 5 acre walled garden divided by yew hedges into `garden rooms´. Including a 120 yard double herbaceous border, formal rose... more

Burlington Lane, Chiswick, London  
Chiswick House has an important early eighteenth century garden of trees, formal vistas and architectural ornament such as bridges, statuary, vases, and a sunken amphitheatre with... more

Tudor Road, Manor Park, Runcorn, Cheshire  
Excavated Priory remains are the setting for Norton Priory´s extensive gardens with a site which also includes a purpose-built museum, the St Christopher statue - one... more

Cark-in-Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria  
The gardens surrounding Holker Hall cover 25 acres of highly acclaimed woodland and formal garden areas, offering a richness and variety particular to this special micro-climate... more

Sledmere, Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire  
Sledmere House has a beautiful 18th century Walled Rose Garden, Knot Garden, recently laid out Parterre, and acres of open space and woodland. Capability Brown designed... more

The Hutts, Grewelthorpe, Ripon, North Yorkshire  
The Himalayan Garden is set in 20 acres of woods, lakes and streams within 3 different valleys, in a spectacular setting. We have over 700 different... more

Alnwick, Northumberland  
The Alnwick Garden is one of the most unusual and spectacular gardens of the 21st century. This new garden features the Grand Cascade as its centrepiece,... more

Brodsworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire  
At Brodsworth Hall & Gardens you can gain a fascinating insight into the fashions, desires and changing fortunes of the Victorian country gentry at this once... more

Harewood, Leeds, West Yorkshire  
The garden landscape at Harewood House was determined by the designer Capability Brown in the mid 1700s when the foundations for the Palladian Country House were... more

Upper Dicker, Hailsham, East Sussex  
Michelham Priory´s 7 acre beautiful and tranquil gardens are set on a moated island. Originally this was an Augustine Priory. The longest water-filled medieval moat in... more

Ticehurst, East Sussex  
´One of the finest gardens in England´ Pashley Manor Gardens, winner of the HHA/Christies´s Garden of the Year Award, offers a sumptuous blend of romantic landscaping,... more

Godinton Lane, Ashford, Kent  
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... more

Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells, Kent  
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... more

Edenbridge, Kent  
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... more

Penshurst, Tonbridge, Kent  
Experience the beauty and tranquillity of Penshurst Place´s enchanting formal garden, a rare surviving example of Elizabethan garden design. It is also one of the oldest... more

Lower Beeding, Horsham, West Sussex  
Leonardslee lakes & gardens is a Grade I listed 240 acre valley with seven beautiful lakes. In May see the huge blooms of magnificent Magnolias, prize-winning... more

Torpoint, Cornwall  
Antony house and gardens, an example of one of Cornwalls´ finest early 18th century houses, faced in lustrous silvery-grey Pentewan stone, offset by colonnaded wings of... more

Pentewan, St Austell, Cornwall  
The Lost Gardens of Heligan provides a spectacular array of garden and wildlife interests. The celebrated restoration of Heligan´s productive walled gardens is only one of... more

Upper Castle Road, St Mawes, Cornwall  
The gardens at Lamorran House were originally laid out in the 1980s by the present owners. With a large collection of palms and rare tree ferns,... more

Holmbush, St Austell, Cornwall  
The 30 acre Pine Lodge Gardens & Nursery, comprises gardens within a garden, which hold a wide range of some 6000 plants, all of which are... more

Isles of Scilly, Cornwall  
Tresco Abbey Gardens defies all the preconceptions regarding what can and cannot be grown in rain-soaked, frost-cursed Britain. A perennial Kew without the glass hosting 20,000... more

Marwood, Barnstaple, Devon  
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... more

Chagford, Newton Abbot, Devon  
Stone Lane Gardens is a 5 acre arboretum situated in the Dartmoor National Park. It holds an important National Collection of Birch and Alder trees in... more

Greenham, Wellington, Somerset  
The gardens at Cothay Manor are five miles west of Wellington, hidden in the high-banked lanes of Somerset. Virtually unchanged in 500 years, this sleeping beauty... more

Silsoe, Bedfordshire  
Wrest Park´s formal gardens are a fascinating history of gardening styles laid out over one and a half centuries. Explore the ornate garden buildings including the... more

Chenies, Rickmansworth, Buckinghamshire  
Chenies Manor gardens are maintained to the highest standards and are highly decorative in perfect keeping with the 15th-16th century manor house. Colour throughout the year... more

Taplow, Maidenhead, Buckinghamshire  
Cliveden is a vast and very important landscaped garden, filled with whatever money could buy, balustrading from the Villa Borghese in Rome, the dramatic `Fountain of... more

Stowe, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire  
Stowe Landscape Gardens is an extraordinary, living, breathing work of art. With its ornamental lakes, glorious open spaces, wooded valleys and adorned with over 40 monument... more

Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire  
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... more

Bullers Way, Abbotsbury, Dorset  
Abbotsbury Sub-Tropical Gardens were established in 1765 by the First Countess of Ilchester as a kitchen garden and have developed into a 20 acre Grade I... more

Wimborne Minster, Dorset  
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... more

Exbury, Southampton, Hampshire  
Exbury Gardens, a 200 acre woodland garden world famous for the spring displays of the Rothschild collection of rhododendrons, azaleas, magnolias and camellias. Visit in summer... more

Steeple Aston, Bicester, Oxfordshire  
Rousham House garden was first designed in 1738 by William Kent and represents the initial phase of English landscape design. One of the few gardens to... more

Market Cross, Malmesbury, Wiltshire  
The now world famous amazing 5 acre Abbey House Gardens in the heart of ancient Malmesbury is really two gardens in one. The formal gardens have... more

Portaferry Road, Newtownards, Co Down  
This garden at Mount Stewart House is not to be missed, combining beauty and fun. The gardens contain a collection of statues of British political and... more

Muthill, Crieff, Perth & Kinross  
At Drummond Gardens, pass into the inner courtyard and reach the top of the terracing and the full extent and majesty of this garden is suddenly... more

Dunragit, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway  
Glenwhan is a plantswomans garden for all seasons; in spring and early summer rhododendrons and azaleas are a riot of colour, by mid-summer, Roses, Rockroses, primulas... more

Melrose, Scottish Borders  
Priorwood Garden is a specialist centre for the craft of dried flower arranging. Most of the flowers are grown for this purpose and the colourful selection... more