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Gardens in or near Peterborough, such as Elton Hall Gardens and Grimsthorpe Castle are listed below. The thriving city of modern day Peterborough is a regional centre for commerce, industry, transport and leisure. Surrounded by a diverse landscape from the gentle limestone and clay hills to the flat expanse of the Fens. A contrast of limestone cottages, winding lanes with brick buildings and long straight roads.
Elton Hall Gardens
Elton, Peterborough 7.3 miles away
Since Medieval times, there have been buildings on the site of Elton Hall. The present gardens date from the Victorian and Edwardian era. During the last twenty years the gardens have been carefully restored and now include a flower garden,... more
Grimsthorpe Castle
The Estate Office, Grimsthorpe, Bourne 17.5 miles away
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
Peckover House & Garden
North Brink, Wisbech 17.9 miles away
Peckover House & Garden is a charming 2-acre Victorian garden at the rear of a Georgian house on the North Brink in the middle of Wisbech, described as `The National Trust´s best town garden´. A spacious lawn is shaded by specimen trees including a... more
The Manor
Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon 18.5 miles away
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
Barnsdale Gardens
The Avenue, Exton, Oakham 18.8 miles away
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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Rockingham Castle & Gardens
Market Harborough 20.5 miles away
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
Boughton Park
Kettering 20.9 miles away
The Park at Boughton House includes a great spread of lawns, lakes, waterways, woods and avenues of trees. This Grade 1 listed Designed Landscape is currently being restored, inspired by the original plans of 1746. In July 2009, a new 21st century... more
Easton Walled Gardens
Easton, Grantham 23.8 miles away
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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Belton House
Grantham 30.0 miles away
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
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Brookside, Bateman Street, Cambridge 30.3 miles away
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
Kelmarsh Hall
Northampton 30.5 miles away
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
Anglesey Abbey
Quy Road, Lode 30.9 miles away
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 natural landscaping. Majestic tree-lined avenues and walks form framework for... more
Wimpole Hall
Arrington, Royston 31.0 miles away
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
Belvoir Castle Gardens
Belvoir, Grantham 31.6 miles away
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
Cottesbrooke Hall Gardens
Northampton 33.4 miles away
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 magnificent pools, lily-ponds and double herbaceous borders... more
Docwra´s Manor Garden
Shepreth, Royston 34.0 miles away
Docwra´s Manor Garden, is planted inside the walls of a farmyard, with parts dating back to the Middle Ages. Explore the dividing hedges of yew, beech, lilax and cordon apples. In early spring there are snowdrops, cyclmen and hellebores, followed by... more
Oxburgh Hall
Oxborough, King's Lynn 34.2 miles away
The Oxburgh Hall garden surrounds the wonderful moated Tudor manor house built in 1482 by the Bedingfeld family. Lawns fringed with fine trees, a Victorian parterre planted by Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld in the mid 19th century, lined with box and... more
Chippenham Park
Chippenham, Ely 34.5 miles away
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
Gooderstone Water Gardens
The Street, Gooderstone, King's Lynn 35.3 miles away
Gooderstone Water Gardens: What could be nicer than to stroll through an enchanting garden. Explore the nature trail, perhaps spot a kingfisher and enjoy delicious homemade cakes. Billy Knights, a retired farmer began his garden in 1970. From a... more
Coton Manor Garden
Guilsborough 36.1 miles away
There’s something about a rural English garden in spring and summer that lifts the soul – all those cherry blossoms and roses set against almost lime-coloured lawns just seem to take your cares away. Coton Manor, set deep in the heart of... more
Sandringham House
Sandringham, King's Lynn 36.4 miles away
Sandringham House is perhaps the finest of all the Royal gardens. Each generation of the Royal Family has added something of their own times and tastes. Wander along the peaceful woodland walks or see the dramatic carrstone rockeries. The formal... more
Wrest Park
Silsoe 39.7 miles away
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 magnificent Baroque pleasure pavilion, orangery and Bath House, and admire the fine... more
Houghton Hall Walled Garden
King's Lynn 41.7 miles away
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
Audley End House & Gardens
Saffron Walden 42.9 miles away
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
Woburn Abbey
Woburn 43.4 miles away
The Parks Department is responsible for the maintenance of the 3000 acres within the walls of Woburn Abbey. Each year they plant one hundred standard oak trees, plus any replacements for trees lost or damaged in gales. A simple garden of trees,... more
Ickworth
The Rotunda, Horringer, Bury St Edmunds 44.9 miles away
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
Bradenham Hall
Bradenham, Thetford 45.8 miles away
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 are formally designed and richly planted within beautiful yew hedges - formal... more
Doddington Hall & Gardens
Doddington, Lincoln 47.8 miles away
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
Canons Ashby House
Daventry 48.3 miles away
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
Knebworth House Gardens
Knebworth, Stevenage 48.5 miles away
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
Wollaton Hall, Gardens & Deer Park
Wollaton Park, Nottingham 48.5 miles away
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
Stowe Landscape Gardens
Stowe, Buckingham 49.6 miles away
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 temples in all sizes and styles from Gothic to Classical, this magnificent... more
Wyken Hall Gardens
Wyken Hall, Stanton, Bury St Edmunds 50.6 miles away
Wyken Hall Gardens is a romantic 4 acre garden, designed in the last 25 years with a series of `rooms´ wrapped around a cosy pink house, leading into a more natural garden. The knot and herb gardens were designed by Arabella Lennox-Boyd. A formal... more
Ascott
Wing, Leighton Buzzard 50.6 miles away
Ascott gardens is an opulent late-Victorian extravaganza. It was largely planned by Leopold de Rothschild and planted with trees and shrubs supplied by the well known Chelsea plantsman Sir Harry Veitch. The Dutch garden, the Madeira Walk, the Venus... more
Pensthorpe Wildlife & Gardens
Fakenham 50.9 miles away
If gardens are good for the soul, then a ramble around Pensthorpe Wildlife & Gardens promises to be the ultimate uplifting escape. Set in the beautiful Wensum Valley in North Norfolk, it’s famous for serving as the home of BBC Springwatch, giving... more
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Holkham Hall
Wells-next-the-Sea 51.1 miles away
Through the grand main gate of Holkham Hall in north Norfolk, the rolling green meadows and fallow deer emerge to welcome you to one of England’s most historic parklands. Tread the scenic paths around the 3,000-acre grounds and soak up its natural... more
Newstead Abbey Park & Gardens
Ravenshead 52.1 miles away
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
Melbourne Hall Gardens
Melbourne Hall, Church Square, Melbourne 52.4 miles away
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 streams that flow through the grounds. Rare shrubs and historic statuary compliment this... more
Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery
Annwell Lane, Smisby, Ashby-De-La-Zouch 54.0 miles away
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
Claydon Estate Gardens
The Estate Office, The Claydon Estate, Middle Claydon, Buckingham 54.0 miles away
The Claydon Estate Gardens are a classic example of an English Country house walled garden, both decorative and productive. The gardens were first created by John Sanderson between 1763 and 1776 for the 2nd Earl Verney, whose descendants have... more
Hindringham Hall Gardens
Hindringham Hall, Blacksmiths Lane, Hindringham 54.3 miles away
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
Felley Priory
Underwood 54.8 miles away
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
Farnborough Hall
Banbury 56.0 miles away
Farnborough Hall has a superb landscaped garden of the 1740s, which remains largely unchanged. Containing a broad terrace ornamented with temples, beeches, sycamores and lime trees. Beyond this, a former orangery, a rose garden and a yew walk with... more
The Bressingham Gardens
Bressingham, Diss 56.2 miles away
The Bressingham Gardens. The late Alan Bloom´s Dell Garden created from 1953 with over 50 immaculate ´Island Beds´ of more than 4,500 varieties of perennials, and Adrian Bloom´s spectacular Foggy Bottom garden with views and vistas of year round... more
Hatfield House Gardens
Hatfield 56.3 miles away
Dating from 17th century the gardens at Hatfield House have evolved into a gardener´s paradise. Visitors can enjoy the peace of the West Garden with its scented garden and fountains, and view the famous Knot garden adjoining the Elizabethan Old... more
The Gibberd Garden
Marsh Lane, Gilden Way, Harlow 56.5 miles away
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 a small valley, which slopes down to a brook. Occupying some 7 acres, the garden was planned as a series of... more
Waddesdon Manor
Waddesdon, Aylesbury 58.3 miles away
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
The Mill Garden
55 Mill Street, Warwick 59.8 miles away
The Mill Garden is a half acre informal cottage garden originally created by Arthur Measures, and lies in a superb setting beneath the walls of Warwick Castle, beside the River Avon. It is a garden of winding paths that lead through a delightful... more
Warwick Castle
Warwick 59.9 miles away
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
Upton House
Banbury 60.4 miles away
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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