Winter Gardens & Snowdrops

The private grounds of Welford Park open to the public to view one of the UK's finest snowdrop displays across beech woodland, riverbanks and gardens.

Welford Park opens its award-winning grounds each late winter so visitors can walk among swathes of snowdrops, hellebores, aconites and winter flowering shrubs in a five-acre beech wood and along the River Lambourn. The estate, a former Norman monastery and filming location for The Great British Bake Off, holds a collection of 73 snowdrop cultivars alongside the common Galanthus nivalis. Gates open 11am with last entry at 4pm and the car park locked at 5pm; a tea tent serves hot lunches from 12pm, and there is a small gift shop. The site is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, and dogs on leads are welcome.