Garden Open Days

The Gardens are open to the public for specific days during the year. You can explore the beautiful gardens and river walk and visit the walled garden nursery to view the display borders.

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Next Open Weekend – May 16th and 17th 2026

Tickets available 

Open 10 am until 4 pm. Last entry is 4 pm.

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Admission

Adults £6 children over 5 £2

Information

The gardens form a number of formal herbaceous borders and informal woodland and riverside walks. There is a walled garden, which used to be the hugely productive walled garden for the Castle and is still used as a vegetable garden to this day. The walk takes in a number of flat (but steep) level paths and a woodchip/gravel path that leads to the walled garden, river and pond side walks. These areas can be difficult to access if you are in a wheelchair, as the woodchip/gravel path is uneven and can get a little muddy and thick in places. You can take as long as you like in the garden, it takes about 30/40minutes to march around all the areas on the map, but hopefully you might like to sit or linger to look at the plants. You can definitely make the walk take longer, even at a fast pace.

Carparking

Car parking will be in the village unless we have had an unseasonably dry spring. If we are able to park you onsite, it is in a cow field and has long grass and uneven surfaces. Please wear sturdy footwear

Refreshments

There will be refreshments on site, the village has shops and a tea room open for takeaways.

Dogs are welcome

We welcome well-behaved dogs, but please keep them on short leads and clear up after them. There are some lovely walks around the garden that everyone, including your four-legged friends, will enjoy.

Disabled/pushchair access 

Being built on a hill, disabled access to the castle is very limited. There are several tarmac paths; however, they are mostly very steep to access. Whilst we do our best to ensure we can provide some disabled parking, this is very limited and is at the bottom of the drive, or up at the main house – it is limited as to where you can access, but we try to be as flexible as possible.  Also, if you have a disabled passenger in the car, or someone who might struggle to walk all the way around are also happy for pick-ups and drop-offs.

The same applies to pushchairs, whilst you can (and I have!) push a pushchair all the way around the garden, some of the paths aren’t really pushchair-friendly, although people do manage, especially with the hardier types of pushchair.

Car Parking

Parking will be in the village unless we have had an unseasonably dry spell. If you need to drop off others at the gates, please feel free to do so. There is limited disabled parking, but we do our best to park you in the most appropriate places. See above.

For further information, click here to email or Telephone 07971004428 (please note if you are calling this number on the day, I may not answer immediately, but can call back if I have a minute)

Talks

We will be holding a history talk at 12noon – in front of the main front door

Walled Garden Pottery

The Walled Garden Pottery studio has a new potter as Wyn Abbot has retired from ceramics (still working, please see her website for details). The ceramic and resin arts and crafts may be open on the day, TBC