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Child Friendly Gardens in Central England

Set out below are Child friendly gardens in Central England, including Barnsdale Gardens. Our Child friendly gardens offer a variety of interesting features to keep the young ones amused whilst teaching them about their surroundings and environment.

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Barnsdale Gardens

The Avenue, Exton, Oakham

Children of all ages welcome
Barnsdale Gardens: People of all ages who want a great day out and love gardens will be inspired by a visit to Barnsdale at any time of year. With Britain’s largest collection of individually designed gardens, tea room, gift shop and nursery,... more

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Belton House

Grantham

Children of all ages welcome
Belton´s Park and Garden are, like the house, composed with perfect harmony and proportion. They have serenity, order and strong architectural conviction. With both formal Italian and Dutch gardens as well as a vast informal area, the gardens offer... more

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Warwick Castle

Warwick

Children of all ages welcome
Warwick Castle has fine landscaped gardens leading from the Castle down to the river Avon. This was Capability Brown´s first freelance design for which he received much praise. The old formal garden was removed and replaced with magnificent trees.... more

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Benthall Hall

Broseley

Children of all ages welcome
Benthall Hall is a small garden, once the home of botanist George Maw, containing some interesting plants. Freely-naturalised crocus and daffodils date from his time. There is a relaxed atmosphere, with a rose garden and small pool, fruit trees,... more

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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

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Belvoir Castle Gardens

Belvoir, Grantham

Children of all ages welcome
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 fresh water springs, lawns and small architectural features, carefully... more

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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

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Westbury Court Garden

Westbury-on-Severn

Children of all ages welcome
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 best example in England. A two-storey pavilion looks down a canal flanked by hedges, and a further... more

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Ragley Hall

Alcester

Children of all ages welcome
The gardens at Ragley surround the magnificent Palladian Hall and the 400 acres of parkland were designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown during the 18th century. In 1873, Victorian garden designer, Robert Marnock createda formal flower garden... more

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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

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Hodsock Priory

Blyth, Worksop

Children of all ages welcome (Treasure trail for children and new play area for 2013)
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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Kelmarsh Hall

Northampton

Children of all ages welcome
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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Westonbury Mill Water Gardens

Pembridge, Leominster

Children of all ages welcome
Westonbury Mill Water Gardens: The garden is laid out around a tangle of streams and ponds and has a huge collection of moisture loving plants growing with lush abundance, and a surprise around every corner.You can climb the spiral walk of the giant... more

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Grimsthorpe Castle

The Estate Office, Grimsthorpe, Bourne

Children of all ages welcome
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 vegetable garden and orchard, with lots of quiet corners and tranquil... more

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Bourton House Garden

Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh

Children of all ages welcome
Bourton House is a modern medium-sized but truly opulent garden created around a glorious 18th century Manor house and a Grade 1 listed 16th century Tithe Barn, and is maintained very crisply indeed. The garden was originally planted in the 1960s by... more

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Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery

Annwell Lane, Smisby, Ashby-De-La-Zouch

Children of all ages welcome
Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery: Our beautiful woodland garden was created in 1992 and now covers an area of nine acres. British native trees were first planted to provide shelter and into the wood that this created were planted hundreds of unusual... more

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Packwood House

Packwood Lane, Lapworth, Solihull

Children of all ages welcome
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 garden. The colourful borders give year round interest. In spring, daffodils, snowdrops... more

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Batsford Arboretum

Batsford, Moreton-in-Marsh

Children of all ages welcome
Don’t know your Pinus from your Prunus? Or your Sorbus from your Quercus? Take a stroll around the glorious Batsford Arboretum tucked into the Cotswold Hills for a crash course in trees and shrubs followed by scrumptious home-baked coffee and cake at... more

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Canons Ashby House

Daventry

Children of all ages welcome
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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Spetchley Park Gardens

Spetchley Park, Worcester

Children of all ages welcome
Spetchley Park Gardens: This is a beautiful 30 acre Victorian garden, surrounded by glorious countryside and boasting an enviable collection of worldwide plant treasures. You can enjoy the fantastic vistas and stunning architecture that not only... more

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Normanby Hall Country Park

Normanby, Scunthorpe

Children of all ages welcome
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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The Dorothy Clive Garden

Willoughbridge, Market Drayton

Children of all ages welcome
The Dorothy Clive Garden is intimate and informal. It embraces a variety of landscape features, including a superb woodland garden, an Alpine scree, Gravel Garden and many fine mixed borders. As April arrives the succession of colour, fragrance and... more

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Dyrham Park

Dyrham, Bath

Children of all ages welcome
The magnificent formal gardens of Dyrham Park were laid out when the grand house was built but became unfashionable by the late 18th century. They were largely cleared away or filled in when the park was landscaped by Humphrey Repton and Charles... more

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Chatsworth Garden

Bakewell

Children of all ages welcome
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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Berrington Hall

Leominster

Children of all ages welcome
This National Trust owned Berrington Hall majestic parkland and garden is classic Capability Brown. The one mile parkland walk will take you to the best vantage points and show the landscape as it would have appeared when originally laid out. The... more

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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

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Witley Court

Great Witley

Children of all ages welcome
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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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

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Hanbury Hall

School Road, Droitwich Spa

Children of all ages welcome
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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Hergest Croft Gardens

Ridgebourne Road, Kington

Children of all ages welcome (Lots of children also enjoy the gardens)
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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Wollerton Old Hall Garden

Wollerton, Market Drayton

Children of all ages welcome
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 of rooms, each with its own design and layout. Linear formality is the main theme, with careful... more

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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

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Doddington Hall & Gardens

Doddington, Lincoln

Children of all ages welcome
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 includes a box-edged parterre, planted with a superb display of Flag Iris,... more

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Miserden Park Gardens

Miserden, Stroud

Children of all ages welcome
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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Sudeley Castle & Gardens

Winchcombe

Children of all ages welcome (Tours for over 12 yrs only)
Sudeley Castle is known as the Queen of the Cotswolds. Visit this most famous of castles (Henry VIII’s last queen Katherine Parr lived here and is buried here while other residents have included Lady Jane Grey, Charles I and Elizabeth I), then make... more

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Hardwick Hall

Doe Lea, Chesterfield

Children of all ages welcome
The four quadrants of Hardwick Hall gardens, are the herb garden, lawns, nuttery and orchards, conveying the spirit of an Elizabethan garden. Lead statues in yew alcoves; grass alleys flanked by yew and tall hedges of hornbeam hedges; holly domes to... more

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Rockingham Castle & Gardens

Market Harborough

Children of all ages welcome
Rockingham Castle and gardens stand on the edge of an escarpment giving dramatic views over five counties and the Welland Valley below. Surrounding the castle are some 12 acres of gardens largely following the foot print of the medieval castle. The... more

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Hampton Court Castle & Gardens

Near Hope under Dinmore, Leominster

Children of all ages welcome
Ducklings launching themselves off the thatched hermitage roof into a sunken pool, swallows and house martins swooping overhead and a riot of flowers, shrubs, borders and fruit trees – it’s no wonder Hampton Court Castle gardens has scooped awards... 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

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Easton Walled Gardens

Easton, Grantham

Children of all ages welcome
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 down and the gardens abandoned. 100 years later see the ongoing revival of these... more

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Attingham Park

Shrewsbury

Children of all ages welcome
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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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

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Mill Dene Garden

School Lane, Blockley, Moreton-in-Marsh

Children of all ages welcome (Over 5. Dangerous water!)
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 go home with ideas for all season pleasure in your garden. Set round an old water-mill and pond, the... more

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Winterbourne House & Garden

University of Birmingham, 58 Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham

Children of all ages welcome
Winterbourne House & Garden: Restored to its Edwardian Arts and Craft splendour, Winterbourne is a unique heritage attraction – set within seven acres of beautiful botanic gardens. Only minutes from Birmingham city centre, Winterbourne is one of the... more

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Charlecote Park

Wellesbourne, Warwick

Children of all ages welcome
Charlecote Park is a pleasing Capability Brown park with good cedars, and formal gardens around the house. There is a border of plants mentioned in Shakespeare´s works in front of the summerhouse and more recently a long-season herbaceous border,... more

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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

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Upton House

Banbury

Children of all ages welcome
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 the edge of the Cotswolds. There are a variety of garden experiences set into two... more

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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

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Westonbirt, The National Aboretum

Westonbirt, Tetbury

Children of all ages welcome
Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, is one of the most magical and important tree gardens in the world. Set in 240 hectares (600 acres) of historic landscape are over 16,000 trees and shrubs - some of the oldest, rarest and largest in the UK - and 17... more

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Moseley Old Hall

Moseley Old Hall Lane, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton

Children of all ages welcome
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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