Visit historic houses and gardens for free!

Visit historic houses and gardens for free!

Heritage Open Days 2025

Discover some of our favourite dog-friendly spots you can enjoy for free this September as part of Heritage Open Days 2025! 

 

1. Glendurgan Garden 

A historic and exotic wooded valley garden leading down to the Helford River.

Mawnan Smith, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 5JZ.

12 – 21 September, 10:30 – 17:00.

 

2. Stowe Gardens

250 acres of landscape gardens and iconic temples.

Stowe Gardens, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 5EQ.

15 September, 10:00 – 17:00.

 

3. Hughenden

Country home of the Victorian statesman Benjamin Disraeli.

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP14 4LA.

12 – 19 September, 10:00 – 16:00.

 

4. Hidcote

Arts and Crafts-inspired garden with intricately designed outdoor spaces. 

Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, GL55 6LR.

20 September, 10:00 – 17:00.

 

5. Tyntesfield

An ornate Victorian Gothic Revival house with extensive garden and parkland.

Wraxall, Bristol, North Somerset, BS48 1PA.

18 – 20 September, 10:00 – 18:00.

 

6. Charlecote Park

A Victorian home set in landscaped deer park.

Wellesbourne, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV35 9ER.

12 – 13 September, 09:00 – 17:00.

 

7. Kedleston Hall

18th-century mansion with Adam interiors, colonial history and vast parkland.

Kedleston Road, near Quarndon, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 5JH.

15 – 21 September, 09:00 – 17:30.

 

8. Newark Park

A secluded estate with glorious views, providing country house hospitality, garden strolls and woodland walks.

Newark Park, Ozleworth, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 7PZ.

13 September, 10:00 – 17:00.

 

The full list of places you can visit for free during Heritage Open Days is on www.heritageopendays.org.uk

Dogs Welcome pilot scheme at Glendurgan Garden, Cornwall

Dogs Welcome pilot scheme at Glendurgan Garden, Cornwall

Glendurgan Garden in Cornwall

A place not to be missed when you are in Cornwall! A ‘small peace of heaven on earth’, as described by its creators Alfred and Sarah Fox, has launched the Dogs Welcome pilot scheme.

Well-behaved dogs will now be allowed at Glendurgan Garden from February 2025. Your four-legged companion can explore all areas of the property, except for the maze, apple orchard and Schoolroom.

 

Admission fee is £12 – £13. All day parking is £5 per vehicle. Free entry for the National Trust members.

 

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cornwall/glendurgan-garden

Dogs Welcome pilot scheme at Hidcote in Gloucestershire

Dogs Welcome pilot scheme at Hidcote in Gloucestershire

Dog-friendly events

Hidcote, a world-famous Arts and Crafts-inspired garden in the Cotswolds and the National Trust property, has launched the Dogs Welcome pilot scheme, when well-behaved dogs will be allowed to explore all areas of the property (apart from the Old Garden and the Manor) on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. 

 

Admission fee (30th September – 31st December 2024) is £10 (adult) or free for the National Trust members.

 

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/gloucestershire-cotswolds/hidcote