Arley Hall & Gardens

About Arley Hall & Gardens

This 12 acre garden has been lovingly created by successive members of the Egerton Warburton family. Rowland Egerton Warburton, who laid out the stunning double herbaceous border and Rootree, to the late Lady Ashbrook who created the Shrub Rose and Tea Cottage Garden. Viscount Ashbrook has, over the past 30 years, created a more informal area of the garden on the East side of the Hall called The Grove and Woodland Walk. This area has been planted with exotic trees and shrubs and holds a large collection of rhododendrons and azaleas.Voted one of the top 50 gardens in Europe, Arley is a plantsman’s paradise with many old established herbaceous perennials. Arley’s gardens has a walled gardens, and vegetable garden, herb garden, a scented garden, a flag and fish garden and the Ilex Avenue, a spectacular avenue of cylinderinical Ilex columns leading down to the Sundial Garden and Rootree. The avenue of pleached lime trees on arrival is spectacular.
There is a cafe, plant nursery, gift shop and Chapel. Arley offers the visitors the opportunity to wander through one of the best gardens in the North West. ‘A peaceful oasis in a busy world’. Dogs welcome on a lead and disabled access in the gardens.

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