Leicestershire Parks & Gardens

Abbey Park

The River Soar divides this beautiful park into two distinct areas: to the east of the river lies the highly decorative Victorian part of the park with its evergreen shrubberies, trees, lakes and formally planted flower displays and to the west of the river lies the fascinating Abbey Grounds.  Within this area are the remains of the twelfth century Leicester Abbey and the ruins of Cavendish House, a seventeenth century mansion. 

Abbey Park Road, Leicester LE4 5AQ   Tel: 0116 222 1000

Barnsdale Gardens

The gardens at Barnsdale in Rutland were built by Britain's best loved Television gardener Geoff Hamilton over several years for BBC TV Gardeners' World programme & various other BBC specials

The Avenue, Exton, Oakham, LE15 8AH  Tel: 01572 813 200  Email

Belgrave Hall Gardens

One can walk through formal, herbaceous and woodland gardens designed in the 1850's. . Many original features from the Victorian garden are still retained including garden layout, walled gardens, plants and a number of garden statues and monuments from lost gardens in Leicestershire. The formal gardens have remained unchanged since the 1850s and are today complimented by 20th century herbacous, woodland and water gardens, as well as tropical and alpine glass houses

Church Road Off Thurcaston Road Leicester LE4 5PE  Tel: 0116 266 6590

Long Close Gardens

A garden of exotic trees, luxuriant rhododendrons, shining camellias, huge magnolias, terraced lawns, lily ponds and herbaceous borders.

Main Street, Woodhouse Eaves, Loughborough LE12 8RZ Tel 01509 890616  Email

Rockingham Castle Gardens

Surrounding the castle & are some 18 acres of gardens largely following the foot print of the medieval castle. The vast 400 year old "Elephant Hedge" dissects the formal 17th century terraced gardens. Included in the gardens are many specimen trees & shrubs including the remarkable Handkerchief Tree.

Rockingham, Market Harborough LE16 8TH    Tel: 01536 770240  Email

University Botanical Garden

16 acres display an array of interesting features, including an arboretum, a herb garden, woodland and herbaceous borders, rock gardens, a water garden, the National Collections of Skimmia, Aubrieta, hardy Fuchsia and Lawson’s Cypress, and a series of glasshouses displaying temperate and tropical plants, alpines and succulents. There is also an associated arboretum.

Stoughton Drive South, Oadby, LE2 2NE Tel: 0116-271-2933  Email

Melton Mowbray  LE14 3HY Tel: 01664 822549   Email