Gardens in Oxfordshire
Many of the best gardens to visit are part of stately homes, as the listing below will show. It might be worth your while to look at our Historic Houses in Oxfordshire listings, too.
Aston Pottery Garden is a delightful modern garden surrounding a popular pottery shop and cafe. The garden is known for its superb Annual Border, featuring over 120 different varieties and more than 6,000 plants. Other features include a hornbeam walk and a lush Hot Border.
The Stables, Kingsway Farm, Aston, Oxfordshire, England, OX18 2BT
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Garden: The park around the opulent palace home of the Dukes of Marlborough was laid out by Capability Brown. Formal gardens in French and Italian terraced style, arboretum, rose garden. Unless you have a particular liking for formal gardens, spend your time exploring the park. Or, attend one of the events held in the grounds annually, from jousting to horse trials to crafts fairs.
Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, OX20 1PX
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Heritage Highlight: Birthplace of Winston Churchill
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Garden: Gardens surrounding the superb Jacobean mansion of Chastleton House. The gardens are typically Elizabethan and Jacobean with a ring of fascinating topiary at their heart.
Chastleton, Moreton-in-Marsh, Oxfordshire, England, GL56 0SU
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Since its foundation in 1970, the Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens have grown to become one of the country's most popular zoological attractions. The spacious and varied grounds around the listed Victorian Manor House offer a wealth of planting possibilities and styles.
Bradwell Grove, Burford, Oxfordshire, England, OX18 4JP
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Heritage Highlight: Listed manor house at the centre of the park
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Set on a green hillside in a secluded Chilterns valley, Greys Court has a history going back over 9 centuries. The estate was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, but the earliest part of the estate is the Norman Great Tower, built in the late 11th or early 12th century. The tower is all that remains of the original fortified manor on his site.
Rotherfield Greys, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, RG9 4PG
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Heritage Highlight: Norman tower
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The oldest botanical garden in England, founded in 1621. Modern greenhouses have now replaced those built in 1670. Within the gardens are a rock garden, rose garden, herbaceous beds, and flowering clematis. The location beside the river makes the Botanic Gardens a delightful place on a summer's day!
Rose Lane, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, OX1 4AZ
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Heritage Highlight: The oldest botanical garden in England
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Garden: One of the first true landscape gardens in England, Rousham set the tone for much of the landscape gardening fervour that so marks English country house design. The gardens were largely the work of William Kent 1685-1748), and is remarkably unaltered from Kent's original design.
Rousham, Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, OX25 4QU
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8 acres of magnificent gardens with year-round interest. There is a scented rose garden, herbaceous borders designed for colour throughout the seasons, a riverside walk, an alpine garden with delicate mountain plants, a herbaceous nursery, and a formal garden with medieval features. There is a 13th-century church on the site.
Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England, OX33 1JZ
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Heritage Highlight: A Saxon church stands within the gardens
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