BONSALL OPEN GARDENS 7TH-8TH JUNE

The Magical Gardens of Bonsall are open on the weekend of 7th and 8th June ‘25. Times are from 10am to 5pm. Tickets with map are £6 each. Children go free and dogs are welcome on a lead.

A very magical journey through this old white peak hill village. Pubs, cafe, refreshments in many gardens and the church.

Bonsall has some wonderful gardens. From the pretty cottage garden, hidden yards and winding hilltop plots, to cascading streams, waterfalls, grottos and ladies fern walks. Some of the gardens have been influenced by Gertrude Jekyll, Joseph Paxton, the victorians at matlock bath. Others have evolved from hundreds of years of being working cottage gardens, with vegetable patches, pig styes and stables. The backdrop to these gardens are the very buildings by which they sit. Frame knitter's workshops with a cow shed beneath, an old pub yard with barns for a working shire horse and his cart, a gardener's glasshouse with a wood burning stove to heat the plants over winter. Bonsall open gardens is a walk around the evolving history of the village, with its foxgloves, wild poppies and ox eye daisies accompanying you by the limestone walls as you walk by.

As a number of the gardens are very small and cramped, we have designated some as a 'peep over'. Where you are free to have a look, but stay by the gate. Also, some parts of Bonsall are very steep, so extra care and good footwear is needed. www.bonsallopengardens.org.uk