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2023 Editor's Choice Hotels with Gardens
Best hotels with gardens in the UK

Congham Hall - 'Sleep Soundly Package' Special Offer
King's Lynn
This renowned herb garden, with nearly 400 varieties of herbs, is easy on the eye and sweet on the nose. It has rare varieties such as goat’s rue – once used to treat the plague – along with thymes, sorrels, lavenders and so on. The herbs are used in the kitchen and in the spa’s signature treatments.

Hambleton Hall - Summer Escape Special Offer
Oakham
Gardens don’t get much prettier than these idyllic 17 acres overlooking Rutland Water. They boast secret nooks and crannies, a parterre providing year-round colour, and a walled kitchen garden that supplies the restaurant. Plus, there’s a pool tucked behind a wisteria-clad wall, a croquet lawn and a tennis court.

Cowley Manor - Spa and Stay Special Offer
Cheltenham
The landscaped grounds, covering 55 acres, that surround this Italianate mansion are thought to have inspired Lewis Carroll, and they certainly retain a magical ‘Alice in Wonderland’ quality. You can lose yourself among their secret woodland pathways, lakes with gliding swans, Victorian water cascade, sculptures, flowers and trees.

Gravetye Manor
East Grinstead
Designed by William Robinson – the Irish gardener who pioneered the ’cottage style’ – in 1885, these historic gardens continue to enchant visitors over a century later with their romantic, informal planting and glorious herbaceous borders. The 35 acres also feature a kitchen garden, orchards, meadows and croquet lawn.

Whatley Manor
Easton Grey
The 26 ‘garden rooms’ at this romantic Cotswold country house hotel with Michelin-star restaurant follow the design of Septimus Warwick, an Arts and Crafts enthusiast. Head gardener David Pearce maintains the 12-acre garden according to that ethos. Managed ecologically, it features wild-flower meadows, along with water features and sculptures.

Fischer’s at Baslow Hall
Baslow
This luxury manor house with fine-dining restaurant is on the edge of the Chatsworth Estate. The emphasis in the garden these days is on soil health and a deep connection to the kitchen. There is an arboretum, a summerhouse, sculpture, colour, shape and texture – and it’s full of birds.

Hotel Endsleigh
Tavistock
Alan Titchmarsh described the gardens here as an ‘Arcadian landscape’. That’s no overstatement. Designed by Humphry Repton in 1811, these Elysian 100-plus acres feature formal planting, woodlands, follies, grottos, streams and bridges, a dell with picnic spots and an arboretum.

Douneside House
Tarland
The 17 acres here feature an ‘infinity lawn’ at the front of the house with views of the Aberdeenshire countryside and Grampian mountains, as well as a plethora of shrubs, flowers, walkways, topiary and summerhouses. There is also a small arboretum, rock-pool gardens, and walled kitchen garden.

The Pipe and Glass Inn
South Dalton
Completely redesigned in 2014, the gardens have function as well as pleasure in mind – they supply the kitchen. Hidden arbours, pergolas, nooks and crannies, and quirky sculptures are all part of a lovingly tended, productive green space. Some bedrooms open out onto patios with garden views.

The Newt in Somerset
Castle Cary
Famous in their own right, these gardens have been fashioned by generations of talented gardeners, including renowned designer Penelope Hobhouse. At the heart is the Parabola, a walled garden with an apple tree maze; beyond is ancient woodland, including oaks, 70-foot hornbeams, and a 300-year-old ‘Druid Tree’ yew.
2022 Editor's Choice Hotels with Gardens
Best hotels with gardens in the UK

Longueville Manor -
St Saviour
A Victorian kitchen garden with glasshouses and potting sheds supplies Jersey Royals and other produce for the restaurant at this manor house hotel. The 18-acre estate also includes a lake, formal gardens, beehives and unspoilt woodland.

Gravetye Manor
East Grinstead
The 19th-century visionary gardener William Robinson developed his ideas on wild gardens at his Sussex home. Now eight full-time gardeners are kept busy maintaining Gravetye’s flower garden, meadows, orchards and kitchen garden.

Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons
Great Milton
Raymond Blanc’s Oxfordshire hotel is famed for its food, but also has sculpture- studded gardens, from a mushroom valley and wildflower meadow to a potager, pond and Japanese tea garden. There’s both a gardening school and a cookery school.

Ballymaloe House
Shanagarry
The Loire’s Château de Villandry was the inspiration behind Ballymaloe’s herb garden, with 70 plant varieties in its formal parterre. It’s one of a number of gardens here, including a Celtic Maze. Tours or gardening courses can be booked.

The Falcon
Castle Ashby
With parkland designed by Capability Brown, an Italian garden, orangery, arboretum and meerkats menagerie, Castle Ashby’s gardens are pretty impressive. Guests of the Falcon get free access and can swim in the lake in front of the castle.

Goldstone Hall
Market Drayton
At the heart of the flower-filled gardens with small woodland area on this Shropshire estate is the one-acre kitchen garden with herbal walkways. One of the largest in Britain, it supplies an abundance of fresh produce for the restaurant.

Glenapp Castle
Ballantrae
The Gulf Stream warming this part of the Scottish coast means exotic plants flourish at Glenapp, with its Italian garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll, a walled garden
with 150-foot glasshouse, and plenty of picturesque pathways in between.

The Pipe and Glass Inn
South Dalton
The Michelin-starred cuisine tells you they’re serious about food in James and Kate Mackenzie’s pub. Now they have added a garden, with sculptures, hidden arbours, a kitchen garden and a herbarium, where every plant is edible, even the roses.

Barnsley House
Cirencester
The renowned garden designer Rosemary Verey created the perfect example of an English country garden at her old home, with a laburnum walk, statues and a potager, which supplies the restaurant. There’s even a spa in this magical place.
2021 Editor's Choice Hotels with Gardens
Best hotels with gardens in the UK

Congham Hall - 'Sleep Soundly Package' Special Offer
King's Lynn
Love herbs? Congham Hall is right up your patch. With 400 varieties, these beautifully laid-out herb gardens are a popular attraction in their own right. A stroll in the early morning or at dusk is a sensual delight for the eye and nose.

Bodysgallen Hall and Spa - 'Escape to the Country' Special Offer
Llandudno
The formal gardens here are as aristocratic as the 17th-century house. Wander through the restored parterre and the walled and rose gardens, and admire the lily ponds and follies, before exploring the 200-acre estate.

Longueville Manor -
St Saviour
A walk through this 18-acre estate, landscaped by a Victorian clergyman, offers the pleasures of a lake, kitchen garden and woods that are home to red squirrels and woodpeckers. Beyond, country lanes take you into idyllic Jersey scenery.

Gravetye Manor
East Grinstead
These historic gardens were designed by William Robinson, the Irish pioneer of the wild garden, in 1885. His spirit lives on in the romantic flower garden, pergola, kitchen garden, orchard and woodland garden.

Hotel Endsleigh
Tavistock
Humphry Repton’s swan song (his last commission, in 1814), these gardens are as dreamily picturesque as Olga Polizzi’s hotel. Overlooking the Tamar are a formal garden, dell with bridges, arboretum, cottage orné and herbaceous border.

Austwick Hall
Austwick
This restored Italianate garden, set into a hillside, is a delight throughout the year: in winter, admire the drifts of snowdrops in the woodland; in spring, displays of daffodils and bluebells. Art lovers will enjoy the sculpture trail.

The Newt in Somerset
Castle Cary
These 800-acre gardens, comprising cultivated and landscaped areas, deer park, wild flower meadows and woodland, are no pleasing add-on to Hadspen House, but the star of the show. A dedicated museum tells the ‘Story of Gardening’.

Greywalls
Gullane
These six-acre gardens are attributed to Gertrude Jekyll and one can sense her hand in the elegant Edwardian design, with its promenades, radiating pathways, rooms and vistas, and perfectly placed spots for sun, shade and privacy.
2020 Editor's Choice Hotels with Gardens
Best hotels with gardens in the UK

Gravetye Manor
East Grinstead
‘In setting a garden, we are painting,’ wrote William Robinson, who owned this Elizabethan manor from 1884. Disdaining Victorian formality, Robinson favoured
a natural style. Discover a wild garden, flower garden, orchard, lake and meadow in 1,000 wooded acres.

Fischer’s at Baslow Hall
Baslow
Five acres of gardens surround this Jacobean-style mansion, with clipped box and yews, cottage garden borders, an arboretum, a kitchen garden. Guests, free to wander, find hidden paths, a pond, a ‘secret’ bridge, specimen trees.

Goldstone Hall
Market Drayton
Come to this Georgian manor house in summer to see the roses. Come at any time to enjoy produce from one of the UK’s largest hotel vegetable gardens, with herb walkway (more than 200 varieties), heritage vegetables and double-tiered herbaceous border.

The Pig near Bath
Pensford
A kitchen garden lies at the heart of every Pig, and this Georgian manor with deer park has the largest, with smokehouse, glasshouse, wild-flower orchard, fruit cages and hives. Enjoy home-grown produce
in the Conservatory, spa treatments in a ‘potting shed’.

Lindeth Fell
Bowness-on-Windermere
Gardens laid out by unsung Edwardian genius Thomas Mawson surround this B&B overlooking Lake Windermere. Here are Mawson’s trademark terraces, lawns, dry-stone walls, glorious plantings, a private tarn in grounds that melt into the landscape.

Grove of Narberth
Narberth
Walking trails thread through 28-acre grounds at this 17th-century-cum- Victorian mansion. Explore four acres of kitchen and walled gardens, terraces, a pond, a stream, an apple orchard and fruit garden, beehives, ancient oaks, mighty beeches.

Greywalls
Gullane
An Arts and Crafts ‘golf box’ designed by Edwin Lutyens stands in gardens attributed to Gertrude Jekyll, with arched gateways in high walls framing views, a sunken croquet lawn, a lavender border, a ha-ha beside Muirfield golf course.
2019 Editor's Choice Hotels with Gardens
Best hotels with gardens in the UK

Congham Hall - 'Sleep Soundly Package' Special Offer
King's Lynn
With more than 400 varieties of herbs, the herb garden at this Georgian country house is a great attraction for students
of all things culinary and physic, while supplying kitchen and spa. Best experienced with the heady aromas found at dawn or dusk.

Hambleton Hall - Summer Escape Special Offer
Oakham
The owners of this former hunting lodge have created a glorious patchwork on 17 south-facing acres, with a parterre, ornamental ponds, mature trees, statues and topiary, bordering Rutland Water. Lovely in all seasons.

Bodysgallen Hall and Spa - 'Escape to the Country' Special Offer
Llandudno
Guests can wander more than 200 acres of parkland, pleasure grounds and gardens at this Jacobean manor house. Garden tours take in a rare 17th-century box parterre. There are woodland walks, a lily pond, a cascade, specimen trees, a prolific walled kitchen garden.

Longueville Manor -
St Saviour
From 1863, the Rev Christian (aka WB) Bateman landscaped the grounds around this ancient manor house, with lake, specimen trees, kitchen garden. They remain much as he designed them – though with the addition of a pool, jogging trails and spa.

Cliveden House - 'A Cliveden Indulgence' Special Offer
Taplow
Sir Charles Barry’s Italianate mansion overlooking the Thames stands amid pleasure grounds, with a yew maze, rose garden, a Japanese water garden, a parterre laid out by John Fleming, pioneer of ‘carpet bedding’ – and Britain’s most notorious swimming pool.

Goldstone Hall
Market Drayton
One of the UK’s largest hotel kitchen gardens, reclaimed from wilderness, supplies the kitchen with a wealth of produce at this Georgian manor house. There is a herb walkway, a walled garden with double-tiered herbaceous border, a riot of colour all summer long.

Hotel Endsleigh
Tavistock
Olga Polizzi’s ducal fishing lodge stands in an 18th-century arcadia laid out by Humphry Repton, with the River Tamar running through. Discover streams, pools, cascades, ravines, a shell house and grotto, and one of England’s longest herbaceous borders.
2018 Editor's Choice Hotels with Gardens
Best hotels with gardens in the UK

Talland Bay Hotel - 'Meet the Makers' Special Offer
Talland-By-Looe
In 'one of the most idyllic spots ever', this dog-friendly hotel 'near the end of an extremely narrow lane' overlooks cliff-top gardens filled with larky sculpture and Wonderland whimsy.

Bodysgallen Hall and Spa - 'Escape to the Country' Special Offer
Llandudno
This Tudor Gothic-style Elizabethan mansion, extended over centuries, overlooks parkland with a rare 17th-century parterre, walled rose garden, cascade, lily pond and follies.

Lords of the Manor - 'Taste of the Cotswolds' Special Offer
Upper Slaughter
A luxury afternoon tea in gardens on the River Eye and fine dining in the evening are among the sybaritic pleasures to be enjoyed at this Cotswold-stone former rectory.

Askham Hall - Spring Three Night Special Offer
Penrith
With a Michelin-starred restaurant, Grade II listed garden, 17th-century pele tower and French drawing room, Askham Hall sounds as if it might be very formal; not a bit of it.

Hotel Endsleigh
Tavistock
‘An enchanting destination’ is how readers describe Olga Polizzi’s Regency hunting lodge, which stands by the River Tamar in an Elysian landscape designed by Humphry Repton.

Douneside House
Tarland
This architectural gem – an Edwardian Scots Revival country house – in the fertile Howe of Cromar, with long views to the Grampians, is today a very special country house hotel.

Lindeth Fell
Bowness-on-Windermere
With rolling gardens, lakeside views, and elegant, spacious interiors, this Edwardian home above Windermere is more country house hotel than B&B.

Barnsley House
Cirencester
Even hardened townies are seduced by the surrounds of 17th-century Barnsley House, created by visionary gardener Elizabeth Verey who moved here in the 1950s.
2017 Editor's Choice Gardens
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Talland Bay Hotel - 'Meet the Makers' Special Offer
Talland-By-Looe
In 'one of the most idyllic spots ever', this dog-friendly hotel 'near the end of an extremely narrow lane' overlooks cliff-top gardens filled with larky sculpture and Wonderland whimsy.

Middlethorpe Hall & Spa - Health and Beauty Spa Break Special Offer
York
First-time visitors can’t help but stand and stare at this exquisite country house, with its William and Mary symmetry and 20 acres of gardens and parkland.

Ballyvolane House
Fermoy
With breakfast served until noon, afternoon tea by the drawing room fire, shooting, fishing and communal dining, a house-party atmosphere prevails at this Georgian country house.

Goldstone Hall
Market Drayton
Everything in the garden is lovely at John and Sue Cushing’s red brick Georgian manor house hotel in dairy-farming country five miles outside Market Drayton.

Hotel Endsleigh
Tavistock
‘An enchanting destination’ is how readers describe Olga Polizzi’s Regency hunting lodge, which stands by the River Tamar in an Elysian landscape designed by Humphry Repton.

Lindeth Fell
Bowness-on-Windermere
With rolling gardens, lakeside views, and elegant, spacious interiors, this Edwardian home above Windermere is more country house hotel than B&B.

Grove of Narberth
Narberth
Turn off a country lane down a tree-lined drive and your tensions will slip away when you glimpse this white stucco building with its pleasing Georgian symmetry.

Austwick Hall
Austwick
Austwick Hall has closed down. With its grandly furnished rooms, extravagant decorative style and sweeping Italianate garden, this Yorkshire Dales country house B&B has the flavour of a stately home.

Barnsley House
Cirencester
Even hardened townies are seduced by the surrounds of 17th-century Barnsley House, created by visionary gardener Elizabeth Verey who moved here in the 1950s.
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Gravetye Manor
East Grinstead
Deep in the Sussex countryside, a romantic Elizabethan manor house, built by an ironmaster for his bride, stands amid 1,000 acres of historically important gardens, pleasure grounds and woodland.

Lime Wood
Lyndhurst
A New Forest bolt-hole, this country house hotel has an easy glamour, romantic and family-friendly rooms, heart-warming Italian food and top-notch spa.

Glenapp Castle
Ballantrae
At the end of a ‘beautiful tree-lined drive’, this romantic Victorian Scottish Baronial castle stands in landscaped grounds with views across the Firth of Clyde to Ailsa Craig.