
Miserden Park Gardens
This timeless and elegant walled garden overlooks historic deer park and the Golden Valley below.
You feel an air of peace and tranquility as you wander through the topiary Yews and the grass steps, both designed by Edwin Lutyens.
The long, mixed borders are some of the grandest in England still in private ownership and are brimming with roses, shrubs, perennials, and bulbs. The Wisteria clad manor, dating back to 1620 also provides the most amazing backdrop to the garden.
Other features include a magical 200 year old Sycamore growing through a stone wall, an ancient Mulberry planted in 1620, a rill garden with fountain, and the most enchanting Arboretum.
The Wills family continue to develop the garden and have included a fun, spiraling Dahlia garden, and greenhouses that have also been modified to create a wonderful café.
Cotswold Garden Tours invite you to experience the relaxed and serene atmosphere of this classic Cotswold garden.
Painswick Rococo Gardens
Created in the 1740s as a fanciful pleasure garden by wealthy landowner Benjamin Hyett, Painswick Rococo Garden is the country’s last remaining Rococo garden.
Sadly it soon became overgrown and completely lost and forgotten about. It was only in the early 1980s that historians discovered a painting of the house and garden that they realized it was there! After a major restoration project it was brought back to its former glory and opened to the public in 1988.
These beautiful Georgian gardens feature a mesmerizing landscape containing deceptive vistas, pools, formal vegetable gardens, serpentine paths, follies and sculpture.
You are cordially invited to be transported back to a lost time of entertainment, leisure, fantasy and pleasure. Cotswold Garden Tours will unlock this hidden garden.

Tour details and booking
Miserden Manor & Painswick Rococo Garden tour details
- Meet & Greet at 10.30am at Miserden Park,
- An introductory talk on the gardens,
- Tour of the gardens by your guide, Ben Knight,
- Option to purchase refreshments in the lovely glasshouse cafe,
- Feature long herbaceous borders, Wisteria clad manor, and enchanting Arboretum.
- Moving to Painswick Rococo Gardens there will be an introductory talk,
- Followed by a tour of the gardens lead by Ben Knight,
- Tea/coffee and cake,
- Features formal vegetable garden, pools and sculpture,
- Price: £68.00 per person.
Accessibility at Miserden Manor & Painswick Rococo Gardens
Painswick Rococo: There are steep and uneven paths and only about a fifth of the garden is accessible to wheelchairs.
Find Miserden Manor & Painswick Rococo Gardens
The Garden at Miserden,
Miserden,
Nr Stroud,
Gloucestershire,
GL6 7JA
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Painswick Rococo Garden
Painswick
Gloucestershire
GL6 6TH
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Miserden Manor & Painswick Rococo Gardens Bookings & Availability
There are no new tours planned for Miserden Manor & Painswick Rococo Gardens this year, but please look out for our 2025 itinerary which will be available on this website soon.