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The Best Gardens to Visit in the West of England
Our pick of the best gardens to visit in the West of England (Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire (incl. the Cotswolds), Bristol, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands), every address checked.
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Stourton, Wiltshire (National Trust)
Often called the most celebrated English landscape garden: a lake, classical temples and grottoes around a 1721 Palladian house, at its best for rhododendrons in May and June.
See details →The Lost Gardens of Heligan
Near Mevagissey, Cornwall
Gardens neglected after the First World War and restored in the 1990s; voted the best garden in the South West by Garden News readers.
See details →Eden Project
Near St Austell, Cornwall
Great biomes in a former china clay pit showing the world's major plant systems, including the rainforest biome, the largest conservatory in the world.
See details →Hidcote
Near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire (National Trust)
A celebrated Cotswold garden, one of the highest-rated in a Which? readers' survey of the UK's best gardens.
See details →Westonbirt, The National Arboretum
Near Tetbury, Gloucestershire
More than 3,000 species of trees and shrubs across more than 240 hectares.
See details →RHS Garden Rosemoor
Great Torrington, Devon
The RHS garden in North Devon, with formal rose and herb gardens, shrubberies and a naturalised stream garden.
See details →Trebah
Near Falmouth, Cornwall
A subtropical valley garden first laid out in the 1840s, with more than four miles of paths running down to the Helford River.
See details →Hestercombe
Near Taunton, Somerset
Three centuries of garden design, including an Edwardian garden by Lutyens and Jekyll, with an orangery and a contemporary art gallery.
See details →Kiftsgate Court
Near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
An Arts and Crafts garden famous for its enormous rambling rose.
See details →Painswick Rococo Garden
Painswick, Gloucestershire
One of the largest collections of naturalised snowdrops in the country, some five million, usually in flower from late January.
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Checked October 2026. Opening times, prices and delivery terms change, so please check before you travel or order.