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Gardens in Britain

Gardens, glasshouses and botanic gardens.

Facts last checked 25 Oct 2026. Britlens is independent: see our editorial policy.

Sackville Gardens, Piccadilly, Chinatown & the Village
Sackville Gardens, ManchesterPhoto: User Lmno on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Beazer Garden Maze, Milsom Street & Walcot
Beazer Garden Maze, BathPhoto: Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 3.0
Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, St Ives & West Penwith
Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, CornwallPhoto: Tom Parnell, CC BY-SA 2.0

Places from the lists below; each photo links to the guide page that lists it.

Where to start

Reasoned from our data counts

These three destinations have the most matching places in our guides. That shows where our coverage is deepest for this interest, not an official ranking.

  • London

    18 matching places.

    Most in: Marylebone (3), Notting Hill & Holland Park (3).

  • Manchester

    5 matching places.

    Most in: Chorlton & Didsbury (2), Altrincham & Sale (1).

  • Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire

    3 matching places.

    Most in: Aberdeen city (3).

For a hand-picked route, see the themed trip Gardens (9 stops in London, Bath, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, York). More: all themed trips.

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All 79 places, by destination

Only places our data labels as gardens or glasshouses, or with 'botanic' or 'garden' in a garden-type name. This includes London's garden squares as our data lists them. City parks are not counted.

London18places

Show 8 more in London

Manchester5places

Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire3places

Bath3places

Cornwall3places

Glasgow3places

Norfolk and the Broads3places

The New Forest3places

The South Downs3places

Bristol2places

Devon2places

Edinburgh2places

Liverpool2places

North Coast 5002places

Sheffield2places

St Andrews and Fife2places

Stratford & Warwickshire2places

The Jurassic Coast2places

The Lake District2places

Yorkshire2places

Anglesey1place

Cambridge1place

Isle of Arran1place

Isle of Bute1place

Isles of Scilly1place

Leeds1place

Lincoln1place

Lindisfarne (Holy Island)1place

Nottingham1place

Oxford1place

Stirling and the Trossachs1place

Wales1place

York1place

How we matched these places

We search the type label and name of every sight in our guides for this interest. Places we have not listed, or that our data labels differently, will be missing. Data checked 25 Oct 2026. Hearts save a place to My trip.

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Sources

Official pages read on 25 Oct 2026. Rules, prices and opening times change: check the source before you rely on it. Counts and rankings on this page come from Britlens place data and are not official figures.

No external source is cited on this page; every figure is computed from our own data.