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Last updated on 24 February 09

Castle Ashby Gardens

  3.0/5 (3 ratings)
  • Castle Ashby Gardens, Northamptonshire Photograph © Castle Ashby Gardens
  • Castle Ashby Photograph © Castle Ashby Gardens
  • Castle Ashby Gardens, Northampton Photograph © Castle Ashby Gardens

Gardenvisit Editorial

An Elizabethan/Jacobean house with a serpentine park and a Victorian garden. The park was designed by Lancelot Brown after 1761. He made a Ha Ha, removed avenues, formed a series of ponds, carried out extensive planting and installed a temple and a dairy. In the 1860s, a terrace garden was made and the old kitchen garden was made into an elaborate 'Italian garden' with parterres using the family's monogram as a motif.

Head Gardener's Comment

Castle Ashby is the ancestral home of the 7th Marquess of Northampton.

Set in the heart of a 10,000-acre estate, the 25 acres of extensive gardens are a combination of several styles including the romantic Italian Gardens, the unique Orangery and impressive Arboretum.

Take your time to explore our gardens, visit the farmyard or plant centre and perhaps relax afterwards in our Walled Garden Tea Room.

Address - Castle Ashby Gardens, Northampton, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, England, NN7 1LQ
Opening times - 10am-5:30pm 1st April to 30th September. 10am-4:30pm 1st October to 31st March (Please note that on the odd occasion the gardens may close due to events and wedding celebrations taking place within the grounds)
Admission - Adult £5 Concessions and Children over 10 £4.50 Children under 10 free Family ticket (2 adults and 2 children) £16 Season ticket £60
Website - Visit the Castle Ashby Gardens website

Designers and Influences

This garden has been designed and influenced by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown

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Reviews and Comments

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  • over 2 years ago R. Adams said

    Being a visitor from Cheshire, I made a special trip to Castle Ashby to enjoy the facilities. I was accompanied by my wife, eldest son (who was celebrating his birthday) and our two grownup grandchildren, who live in Northampton. We decided on a snack in the walled garden tea room and ordered drinks, several bowls of 'triple fried chips" and a pate ploughmans, with baguette.
    The baguette turned out to be a small bread roll which was soft and tough, impossible to cut open, totally inadequate for eating with the pate. The pate itself was fine.
    The chips, priced at £2.65 a portion (we had four!), were abyssmal. Despite the triple fried claim, they were pallid and insipid, giving every indication of being frozen supermarket fries cooked once (or three 10 second bursts!).
    We complained about the quality of the food and were assured that the 'baguette' was part baked, cooked in their oven, no comment on the chips.
    At £2.65 per portion for the chips and £4.50 for the ploughmans we felt aggrieved.

    Never again will my family dine at this tea room.

    (1.0/5)
  • almost 3 years ago Anonymous said

    My family and I recently visited Castle Ashby Gardens and found the gardens pleasantly set out and an interesting walk. It is a pity that a guide to the gardens is not available to enable visitors to plan their route.

    The notice boards in situ are poorly presented with broken glass and in need of a lick of paint.

    (3.0/5)
  • about 4 years ago marie ryan said

    it was an amazing experience for me visiting your gardens some days ago it was heavenly. i can't think of anywhere i can match it closely to except slievenamon mountain in tipperary.

    (5.0/5)

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