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The Gate

Compact cottage style garden planted with a colourful display of tulips in spring, and with perennials, annuals and climbers in the walled courtyard of C17 former coaching inn. Also a separate, productive, walled kitchen garden with espaliers and other fruit trees.

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The Gate
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About The Gate

Although small, this garden has layers of interest, especially early in the season for which the owners plant several hundred bulbs, majoring on tulips. The changes are rung every year, and the colourful tulip display is complemented by late daffodils and by early peonies, alliums and euphorbia. The walled garden around the house was once the stable yard of the coaching inn, and the planting is designed around an ancient lilac tree, in bloom in early May. There is a separate walled vegetable garden with greenhouse, where vegetables and fruit are grown. Part of its charm is its unexpectedness, tucked away off a busy thoroughfare in the centre of the ancient Saxon town of Winchcombe.

The Gate features

  • Bluebells
  • Cashless
  • Cottage Garden
  • Daffodils
  • Groups Welcome
  • Historical Garden
  • Plants for sale
  • Refreshments
  • Roses
  • Town Garden
  • Tulips
  • Vegetable Area
  • Wheelchair access

Location details

The Gate,
Winchcombe,
Gloucestershire,
GL54 5PS

Directions to The Gate
Winchcombe is on B4632 midway between Cheltenham & Broadway. Parking behind Library in Back Lane, 50 yds from The Gate. Entry via Cowl Lane.

The Gate openings

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair access to most areas of the garden; other areas are partially visible from negotiable paths.
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FAQs

Yes, cashless payment is accepted.

Sorry, there is no available parking for coaches at The Gate at this time.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed in the garden at this time.

Yes, there are various plants offerred for sale at  The Gate, please enquire with the owners for more details.

Yes, one or more routes at The Gate are accessible to wheelchair users.

The Gate is not explicitly a wildlife garden, but you may still find various indigenous flora and fauna.