Dog Friendly Gardens in England – Visit Britain's Finest Dog Friendly Gardens

Dudmaston

Quatt, Bridgnorth

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on leads on footpaths in the park and on the estate only.)
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

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Broadleas Gardens

Devizes

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on short leads)
Broadleas is a lovely 9 acre garden on green sand soil which allows acid loving plants to thrive with mature and semi-mature magnolias growing on each side of a steep dell. It is a garden of tireless perfection at its most stunning in spring when... more

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The Ridges

Weavers Brow (cont of Cowling Road), Limbrick, Heath Charnock, Chorley

Dogs Permitted (On leads)
“The Ridges,” built in the late 1700' s by local landowners the Standish-Langtree family, has had only a handful of owners since then. In1880 the house and land was bought by John Haslem Gillett, a wealthy cotton mill owner with many mills around... more

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Bedgebury National Pinetum & Forest

Bedgebury Road, Goudhurst, Cranbrook

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads in Pinetum)
Open all year, Bedgebury is the perfect place to walk, cycle, ride or play in a spectacular world of trees. Bedgebury´s National Pinetum, host to a world-class collection of dramatic conifers, is a beautiful and peaceful place to walk in all seasons.... more

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Burton Agnes Hall Gardens

Burton Agnes, Driffield

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
Burton Agnes is a magnificent Elizabethan Hall surrounded by lawns and topiary yew bushes and beautiful award winning gardens. The eastern aspect of the house showcases a classical pond with beautiful fountains and a newly created pebble mosaic. To... more

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Canons Ashby House

Daventry

Dogs Permitted (On leads in Home Paddock, parkland and car park)
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 the National Trust, the restoration work of the 1980s has now matured. The garden is divided by... more

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Stone Lane Gardens Arboretum

Chagford, Newton Abbot

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
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 a landscaped and water setting. Popular sculpture exhibition held in garden during summer.... more

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Lytes Cary Manor

Charlton Mackrell, Somerton

Dogs Permitted (On leads, only in car park and on estate walks)
Lytes Cary Manor is a simple garden in Elizabethan style once the home of medieval herbalist Henry Lyte. The main border was designed by plantsman Graham Stuart Thomas, with a mixture of shrubs, roses and perennials. There are also lawns, hedges of... more

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Thorp Perrow Arboretum

Bedale

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
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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Nostell Priory

Doncaster Road, Nostell, Wakefield

Dogs Permitted (On leads and only in park)
Nostell Priory is surrounded by a generous landscape park and gardens, with good trees. The park leads down to a lake where there are attractive waterside walks and plantings of flowering trees and shrubs including rhododendrons, azaleas and... more

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Miserden Park Gardens

Miserden, Stroud

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
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 herbaceous borders contained within a walled garden. A rose garden, plenty of yew... more

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The Valley Gardens - Windsor Great Park

Windsor Great Park, via Wick Road, Englefield Green

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
The Valley Gardens, part of The Royal Landscape, is a woodland garden on a grand scale, set beneath majestic trees with delightful views to Virginia Water lake. Over 200 acres of camellias, rhododendrons, magnolias and many other flowering trees and... more

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Castle Howard Gardens

York

Dogs Permitted (Assistance Dogs & Dogs on Leads)
The Castle Howard gardens and park are breathtaking throughout the seasons and, with many diverse areas to explore, you can find peace and tranquillity whichever path they choose. Enjoy extensive walks through woodlands, formal gardens, along... more

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Hergest Croft Gardens

Ridgebourne Road, Kington

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
Hergest Croft Gardens have been created over 110 years by 4 generations of the Bank´s family. There are hidden valleys, open parkland, woodland glades, informal sunny lawns, glorious flower gardens, shrubberies and borders providing striking autumn... more

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Attingham Park

Shrewsbury

Dogs Permitted (Welcome on leads in deer park & near mansion. Identified off-lead areas.)
Attingham Park gardens were landscaped by Repton. The Park is mainly shrubs and large trees with a grove of Lebanon cedars. Attractive walks along the River Tern are particularly colourful in spring when the daffodils are out followed by... more

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Houghton Lodge Gardens

Stockbridge

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
Houghton Lodge Gardens is a haven of peace above the tranquil beauty of the River Test. Grade II* Gardens with fine trees surround an enchanting and unique example of an 18th century `Cottage Orne´. Chalk Cob walls enclose traditional Kitchen Garden... more

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Knightshayes Garden

Bolham, Tiverton

Dogs Permitted (On leads and only in facilities areas, woodland and park. Assitance dogs only in kitchen & formal gardens.)
The celebrated Knightshayes Garden, was originally planned in the late 1870s and then replanted in the 1950s. Crisply-managed formal terraces and a rather formal woodland garden with a water lily pool and topiary, specimen trees, rare shrubs, swathes... more

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Parcevall Hall Gardens

Skyreholme, Skipton

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
Parcevall Hall Gardens is a hidden gem. Located on a steep hillside and the only large garden to be open to the public within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. This formal and woodland garden commands impressive views of Simons Seat and Wharfdale.... more

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Cliveden

Taplow, Maidenhead

Dogs Permitted (Under close control in the woodlands only)
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 Love´ and a huge parterre below the house. The best parts are the Arcadian ilex... more

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Brantwood

Coniston

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
Brantwood is a rocky hillside garden originally laid out 1870-1880s by John Ruskin. At the top is a viewing platform from which to see the fells. Below, paths wind their way through several different gardens, and a collection of ferns luxuriates... more

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Hodsock Priory

Blyth, Worksop

Dogs Permitted (Dogs can be walked in the park but are not allowed in the woodland or gardens)
Hodsock Priory and its garden are in the centre of the 800 acre Hodsock Estate which has been owned by the Buchanan family since 1765. The Snowdrop Gardens are open each year with a half-mile walk in the woods with carpets of snowdrops along with... more

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Arlington Court

Arlington, Barnstaple

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
The 2700 acre Arlington Court estate and gardens nestles in the thickly wooded valley of the River Yeo. The 30 acre gardens are largely informal but include a small Victorian garden with conservatory, basket beds, herbaceous borders and ornamental... more

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Hindringham Hall Gardens

Hindringham Hall, Blacksmiths Lane, Hindringham

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on leads)
Three acres of peaceful gardens within and without the 13th century moat surrounding the medieval Manor House. Walled vegetable garden, herb parterre, daffodil walk, bluebell copse, stream garden, bog garden, herbacious borders, autumn border,... more

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Sutton Park

Sutton-on-the-Forest, York

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
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 were planted by Percy Cane in the 1960s. There are good herbaceous borders, clever colour schemes and... more

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Hutton-In-The-Forest

Penrith

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
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 the walls, at its most beautiful in the summer months. The Terraces round... more

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Leighton Hall

Carnforth

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on leads in the parkland)
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 the Lakeland Fells. The estate stretches over 1,550 acres and is well worth exploring.... more

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Parham Gardens

Parham Park, Storrington

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
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

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Squerryes Court

Westerham

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
The gardens at Squerryes Court are beautiful all through the year. Originally laid out in the formal style in 1700, they were re-landscaped in the middle of the 18th century. During the last 20 years the family have been restoring the formal garden... more

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Caerhays Castle Gardens

Gorran, St Austell

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
Caerhays Gardens was originally planted out in the early 1900s with mainly rhododendrons. Since then other plants have been introduced such as magnolias and camellias. This peaceful, tranquil garden covers approx. 100 acres and is at its best in... more

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Witley Court

Great Witley

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
At Witley Court Gardens, take some time to explore the woodland walks in the north park. Containing some fascinating collections of plants and shrubs from around the world including the uncommon sedges Carex strigosa and Carex vesicaria together with... more

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Ventnor Botanic Garden

Undercliff Drive, Ventnor

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
Ventnor Botanic Garden is a 22 acre, very lively botanic garden right by the sea. A remarkable collection of plants from all over the world, mainly from the southern hemisphere, many tender but thriving here given enough shelter. Naturalised giant... more

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Rode Hall and Gardens

Church Lane, Scholar Green, Stoke-on-Trent

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
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 rock garden and grotto. Rode Hall's renowned snowdrop walks take place from end January to mid March;... more

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Bramham Park

Bramham, Wetherby

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
Bramham Park and gardens is the stunning family home of the Lane Fox family, direct descendents of Robert Benson, the founder of Bramham over 300 years ago. The gardens extend to some 66 acres and with the Pleasure Grounds extend to over 100 acres.... more

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Kelmarsh Hall

Northampton

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
Kelmarsh Hall is a romantic mid-20th century garden now largely restored. The grass terrace below the garden front of the Hall, with its rows of pleached limes on either side, together with the tapis vert, a wild flower meadow beyond, flanked by... more

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Stourhead

Stourton, Warminster

Dogs Permitted (Dogs welcome in the landscape garden 1 Dec to end of Feb on short fixed leads. Assistance dogs welcome in all areas.)
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

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Wimpole Hall

Arrington, Royston

Dogs Permitted (Welcome on leads in the park.)
Wimpole Hall has a twenty-acre garden with a 350-acre park beyond. The garden has undergone several phases of landscape and garden design since the 17th century. The park has been landscaped by Bridgeman, `Capability´ Brown and Repton. There is an... more

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Moseley Old Hall

Moseley Old Hall Lane, Fordhouses

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on leads in gardens & grounds)
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, a walled garden with topiary and annual borders, an arched pergola hung with two... more

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Hughenden Manor

High Wycombe

Dogs Permitted (Welcomr under close control in park and woodland.)
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

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Houghton Hall Walled Garden

King's Lynn

Dogs Permitted (On leads)
Houghton Hall Walled Garden: The award-winning 5 acre Walled Garden is divided by yew hedges into `garden rooms´. Including a 120 yard double herbaceous border, formal rose parterre with over 120 rose varieties. Wisteria, irises, paeonies,... more

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Coleton Fishacre Garden

Coleton, Kingswear, Dartmouth

Dogs Permitted (On leads only on surrounding NT land. Dog créche,)
Coleton Fishacre Garden is delightful, with its formal terraces. A cultured oasis on the beautiful south Devon coast, with the stream gurgling from pool to pool through generous marginal plantings. The valley garden weaves down towards the sea, with... more

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Wollaton Hall, Gardens & Deer Park

Wollaton Park, Nottingham

Dogs Permitted (Dogs must be kept on Leads)
Wollaton Hall stands on a natural hill 2 miles west of Nottingham City Centre. Located within 500 acres of historic deer park, with a rich diversity of habitats and species. See herds of red and fallow deer roaming wild, stroll around the historic... more

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Holkham Hall

Wells-next-the-Sea

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
Holkham Hall Park and Lake is a carefully planned feature of the approach to the main house. Originally approached from the south through the Triumphal Arch, however today visitors arrive at Holkham through the North Gates due to a railway being... more

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Castle Drogo

Drewsteignton

Dogs Permitted (On leads in car park & estate walks only)
Castle Drogo and its 1920s Lutyens garden is the highest owned by the National Trust at 823 metres and lies within shelter of trees and hedges. The terraced formal garden has an established rhododendron and magnolia collection, spring bulbs, summer... more

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Hanbury Hall

School Road, Droitwich Spa

Dogs Permitted (In car park and park only.)
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 summerhouses, two timber bowling-green pavilions, an ice-house, pond... more

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Sheringham Park

Sheringham

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads near livestock and visitor facilities.)
Sheringham Park gardens were designed by Humphry Repton in 1812, and are one of his outstanding achievements. The large woodland garden is particularly famous for its spectacular display of rhododendrons and azaleas (flowering May-June). There are... more

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Normanby Hall Country Park

Normanby, Scunthorpe

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
Normanby Hall Country Park is set in 300 acres of beautiful gardens, parkland, deer park and woodland. Stunning herbaceous borders in the Secret and Sunken Gardens, 400ft long Bog Garden, shrub borders, Christmas Garden, wonderful naturalised bulbs... more

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Saltram

Plympton, Plymouth

Dogs Permitted (Welcome in woods & parkland)
Saltram was originally an 18th century landscape garden, featuring a fine orangery still used to produce a good collection of citrus fruit, and other buildings of the 1770s. Developments in the 19th century have continued to the present day, giving... more

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Marwood Hill Gardens

Marwood, Barnstaple

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
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

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Chatsworth Garden

Bakewell

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads)
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 today. There are five miles of walks with rare trees, shrubs, formal hedges, temples, sculptures... more

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Kingston Lacy

Wimborne Minster

Dogs Permitted (Dogs on Leads in resaturant courtyard, park & woodlands only.)
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

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