Parks & Green Spaces
Hidcote Gardens
Hidcote is an Arts and Crafts garden created by the talented American horticulturist, Major Lawrence Johnston. Its colourful and intricately designed outdoor ‘rooms’ are always full of surprises – an…
Foxholes Nature Reserve
Foxholes is a tranquil woodland sloping down to the River Evenlode with year-round colour and wildlife interest, but particularly noted for its springtime bluebells. Birdlife includes nuthatch, often seen creeping…
Wychwood Wild Garden
Wychwood Wild Garden is a beautiful woodland and garden, close to the centre of Shipton under Wychwood covering 12 and a half acres of avenues, woods and ponds, much of…
Chipping Campden Playground
The recreation ground in Chipping Campden is a mere 3-minute walk from the centre of the High Street in the popular Cotswold town, and a wonderful playground that you simply…
Matara Centre
The Matara Centre is set in 28 acres and, for the last 25 years, Geoffrey, your host, has dedicated much of his time to the Gardens and Parklands. Setting aside…
Westonbirt Arboretum
Westonbirt Arboretum is a remarkable place for people to enjoy and learn about trees. Created by Victorian entrepreneur Robert Holford, its 240 hectares (600 acres) were planted during an exciting…
Painswick Rococo Garden
Painswick Rococo Garden is a beautiful place to escape, explore and imagine. Designed in the 1740s as an English country gentleman’s pleasure garden, this is a place for holding hands…
Woodchester Park
The tranquil wooded valley contains a ‘lost landscape’ with remains of an 18th- and 19th-century landscape park with a chain of five lakes. Park Mill Pond is the last of…
WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre
There’s something for everyone at WWT Slimbridge, from birdwatchers to families. With amazing close-up wildlife encounters, fun events and activities it’s no wonder we’re an award-winning day out. Let the…
Owlpen Manor
The garden at Owlpen is an unusually complete survival of an early formal garden on a manorial scale. It has been described by the landscape architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe as…
Stanway House & Gardens
Stanway House is a beautiful Cotswold Manor house with a stunning garden which rises in a series of dramatic terraced lawns from a rare, picturesque grasswork to the pyramid, which…
Rousham Gardens
One of England’s most important gardens, Rousham represents the first phase of English landscape design and remains almost as its designer William Kent (1685–1748) left it. Many of the features…
Rodmarton Manor & Garden
A Cotswold Arts and Crafts house, one of the last great country houses to built in the traditional way and containing beautiful furniture, ironwork, china and needlework specially made for…
Harcourt Arboretum
Harcourt Arboretum is home to over one hundred acres of rare, exotic, and endangered trees. For adults, the arboretum hosts a range of courses, including the creative (e.g. nature photography),…
Wytham Woods
Wytham Woods is a large area of woodland which belongs to the University of Oxford – where researchers can carry out observations into woodland habitats. Visitors can take advantage of…
Florence Park
Sitting between Iffley Road and Cowley Road, Florence Park is a green getaway in the heart of East Oxford. Hosting tennis courts, a high-flying trapeze school, play areas, and mini-golf,…
