Welcome
Hanham Court Gardens is a small, family run estate, set in a hidden valley on the edge of the Cotswolds, available for location and wedding hire, guided tours and workshops.
Featured in TV & Film productions for BBC’s Gardeners World,
Channel 5’s The Forsytes and ITV’s Love Your Garden
Explore the Gardens…
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The Gardens
Explore the Formal Gardens, Woodland Valley, Wild Flower Meadow and more.
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Venue Hire
We offer venue and location hire for weddings, filming and occasional events.
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Garden Tours
Book a private Garden Tour with us or visit one of our annual Open Days.
Wander through the Formal Gardens and beyond
Hanham Court Gardens is a 13th century estate situated on the edge of the Cotswolds, between Bristol and Bath. Home to Julia and Richard Boissevian and their family since 2015, the gardens at Hanham Court have only recently become a prominent feature of the estate, in relation to its long history.
In 1993, the award-winning landscape designers Isabel and Julian Bannerman re-established and transformed the grounds into the inspiring gardens that you see today. The couple have designed gardens across the globe, including the 9/11 Memorial Gardens in New York, Lord Rothschild at Waddesdon Manor and King Charles III at Highgrove.
Over twenty years Isabel and Julian skilfully designed a sympathetic and deeply romantic garden with a reputation that takes it far beyond Hanham. Today the Boissevain family continue to honour their work, putting their own love and passion for gardening into maintaining this green haven, whilst creating and experimenting with new planting schemes and garden spaces to enjoy.
‘Roses wind around wooden obelisks in a shape that resembles spun sugar, producing voluminous, frothy white roses all through the summer months’
Guided garden tours
Hanham Court is a family home first and a garden second, which is why it is almost never open. A few times a month we take a small group round: the formal gardens and the ha-ha, then down through the woodland valley to the stumpery, the orchard, and the meadow above the Avon. Around [90 minutes].
How it works
A small group, on foot, for about [ninety minutes]. There is no fixed route and no script. We go where the questions go, so if you want to spend twenty minutes on the crop rotation in the vegetable garden, that is where we spend twenty minutes.
Tours are led by someone who works in the garden rather than a guide reading from a card, which mostly means you get honest answers about what has failed as well as what has worked.
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Discover the rich history and romance of Hanham Court with our private Garden Tours
Explore the gardens and their unique natural surroundings with one of our private garden tours. Learn about the diverse range of flora, our commitment to preserving biodiversity, as well as the unique artistic perspective applied by the Bannermans when designing the gardens.
‘Walking amongst the rich tapestry of pathways, plants and yew topiary is a wonder in itself, there is something new to encounter around every corner’
Biodiversity at Hanham Court Gardens
Here at Hanham Court Gardens we are making conscious steps to promote and preserve biodiversity within the gardens and their surrounding landscape.
By encouraging a wide range of native plant species, wildlife and fungi, and adopting a sustainable and organic approach to soil health and gardening, our aim is to ensure a diverse, balanced ecosystem in which they can all thrive.
