Walled Gardens in the UK

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

Miserden, Stroud, Gloucestershire  
Miserden Park is an attractive garden of Edwardian detail by Lutyens, set upon 17th century bones. Spring flowers, shrubs, fine topiary, bold grass terraces and large... more

Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire  
Westbury Court Garden is a rare Dutch garden of water and simple green spaces, surviving from the 17th century Restored in the 1970s to become the... more

Near Hope under Dinmore, Leominster, Herefordshire  
Hampton Court Gardens are magnificent new gardens in the grounds of a late medieval castle and surrounded by a thousand acres of parkland. Rescued from neglect... more

Doddington, Lincoln, Lincolnshire  
Doddington Hall & Gardens is a beautiful family-owned Elizabethan mansion, with original walled courtyards and 5 acres of romantic formal and wild gardens. The West Garden... more

Easton, Grantham, Lincolnshire  
Easton Walled Gardens was described by President Franklin Roosevelt as a `Dream of Nirvana...almost too good to be true´. 50 years later, the house was pulled... more

The Estate Office, Grimsthorpe, Bourne, Lincolnshire  
Grimsthorpe Castle is a formal Grade I listed historic flower and topiary garden. Leading imperceptibly into the woodland garden, providing a fine setting for the ornamental... more

Daventry, Northamptonshire  
Canons Ashby House, has a formal garden that was created between 1708 and 1717 by Edward Dryden. Derelict and overgrown when the house was rescued by... 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

Underwood, Nottinghamshire  
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... 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

Moseley Old Hall Lane, Fordhouses, Staffordshire  
Moseley Old Hall´s garden has been re-created in the 17th century style. Includes a formal knot garden, a wooden arbour covered with clematis, neat box parterres,... more

Packwood Lane, Lapworth, Solihull, Warwickshire  
Packwood House and gardens are noted for the intact layout dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with courtyards, brick gazebos, terraces and the unique yew... more

Banbury, Warwickshire  
Upton House and gardens stand on limestone, more than 210 metres above sea level. These magnificent grounds and gardens are set in unspoilt Warwickshire countryside, on... more

School Road, Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire  
Hanbury Hall is a restored formal 18th century garden with fruit trees, wilderness and sunken geometric parterre of clipped box. Architectural features, also restored, include two... more

Saffron Walden, Essex  
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... more

Station Road, Wickham Bishops, Witham, Essex  
Wickham Place Farm is a 2 acre walled garden with huge climbers, roses and wisterias cascading into wide borders bursting with shrubs, perennials and bulbs. One... more

Bradenham, Thetford, Norfolk  
Bradenham Hall is an exceptional plant-lover´s garden for all seasons. The house and garden walls are covered with unusual shrubs, climbers and fruit. The flower gardens... more

Felbrigg, Norwich, Norfolk  
The 17th century Felbrigg Hall has a delightful walled garden, combining productive and ornamental gardening. Fruit and vegetables abound and provide fresh produce for the restaurant.... 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

Wroxham, Norwich, Norfolk  
Hoveton Hall has a delightful 15 acre garden set at the edge of the Norfolk Broads. The garden mixes both formal and informal planting across the... more

The Place for Plants, East Bergholt, Suffolk  
East Bergholt Place, set in 20 acres, is a wonderful garden and arboretum. Originally laid out at the beginning of the 20th century by the present... more

Helmingham Hall, Helmingham, Stowmarket, Suffolk  
Helmingham Hall Gardens, the ancestoral home of the Tollemache family for the past 500 years, who enjoy sharing their passion for the beautiful gardens. Surrounded by... more

Somerleyton, Lowestoft, Suffolk  
The gardens and grounds at Somerleyton Hall have long been considered of first-rate importance, with more than twelve acres of garden surrounding the Hall. The wealth... more

Bullsmoor Lane, Enfield, London  
Capel Manor Gardens: 30 acres of richly planted and beautiful themed gardens, to inspire and indulge the senses. All surrounding a Georgian Manor House and Victorian... more

66 Royal Hospital Road, London  
The Chelsea Physic Garden was founded in 1673 by the Society of Apothecaries to train their apprentices in identifying and using medicinal and useful plants. A... more

136 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London  
The Geffrye Museum´s classic herb and period gardens are set beside 18th century almshouses, providing a haven of peace from the inner city. The 12 beds... more

Ham Street, Ham, Richmond, London  
Ham House garden is significant as one of the few formal gardens to survive the 18th century English Landscape Movement. 17th century formality predominates in this... more

Arley, Northwich, Cheshire  
Arley Hall, the award winning gardens, recently voted in the top 50 in Europe and in Britain´s top 10, have been lovingly created over 250 years... more

Malpas, Cheshire  
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... more

Garden Lodge, Over Alderley, Macclesfield, Cheshire  
Hare Hill Garden is a charming wooded and walled garden set amid rolling parkland. This woodland garden, especially spectacular in early summer, includes azaleas, hybrid and... 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

Church Lane, Scholar Green, Stoke on Trent, Cheshire  
Rode Hall gardens are set in a Repton landscape created by John Webb between 1800 and 1810. The principle features are Rode Pool and the terraced... more

Knutsford, Cheshire  
Tatton Park´s gardens are almost a collection of gardens within a garden. Outside the walled garden, the earliest formal areas include the beech maze, first established... more

Penrith, Cumbria  
Dalemain is a delightful and fascinating 5 acre Lake District garden, just two miles from Ullswater and provides a haven of tranquillity. Richly planted herbaceous borders,... more

Patterdale Road, Windermere, Cumbria  
Holehird Gardens (The Lakeland Horticultural Society) was recently voted on BBC Gardeners´ World to be one of the Nation´s Favourite Gardens. 10 acres above Windermere it... more

Penrith, Cumbria  
Hutton-in-the-Forest´s Walled Garden is the main attraction dating from the 1730s. It contains an increasing collection of herbaceous plants, as well as many fruits trained to... more

Burton Agnes, Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire  
Burton Agnes Elizabethan Hall and Gardens is surrounded by lawns and yew topiary bushes. On the eastern aspect there is a classical pond with fountains and... 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

Caton, Lancashire  
Since moving to Gresgarth Hall in 1978 with her family, world-renowned landscape designer and plantswoman Arabella Lennox-Boyd has created one of the most exciting gardens in... more

Carnforth, Lancashire  
Award winning, Leighton Hall is the lived-in house of the famous furniture making Gillow dynasty, nestling in a bowl of parkland against a spectacular backdrop of... more

Beningbrough, York, North Yorkshire  
Beningbrough Hall´s formal garden, originally laid out in 1716 was replaced in the late 18th century with sweeping lawns and specimen trees. Major re-planting has recently... 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

Richmond, North Yorkshire  
Millgate House has a spectacular, small, enclosed town garden with a blissful secluded setting, amazing views and all year round interest. Immensely stylish, ever changing, with... more

Scampston Hall, Malton, North Yorkshire  
Scampston - The Walled Garden. A 4 1/2 acre contemporary garden created by internationally acclaimed designer and plantsman, Piet Oudolf. Striking perennial meadow planting as well... more

Sutton-on-the-Forest, York, North Yorkshire  
Sutton Park & Garden is a fine Georgian house with a Capability Brown landscape. More telling today are the terraces in front of the house which... 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

Cambo, Morpeth, Northumberland  
Wallington Garden, the original formality of Sir Walter Blackett´s 18th century landscape was influenced by Capability Brown. A simple grass terrace looks out over the landscape... 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

Roundhay Park, Princes Avenue, Leeds, West Yorkshire  
Roundhay Park & Tropical World are set in 700 acres of Park and gardens. A Green Flag winning parkland, discover lakes, woodlands, rolling parkland, a castle... more