Biddulph Grange Garden
RHS Partner Garden
About the garden
Biddulph Grange Garden is a formal Victorian masterpiece, created by James and Maria Bateman, with their friend Edward Cooke, between 1842 and 1868. It is divided into garden ‘rooms’, each with its own microclimate and a carefully selected international collection of plants.
The design, characterised by a maze of hedges, tunnels and stepping stones, calls for curiosity and adventure, reflecting the Victorian period of discovery and a time of religious and social upheaval. Bateman’s theories on these subjects are explored in the garden and in the Geological Gallery, once the Victorian entrance to the garden, where a collection of fossils and rocks can be found.
The garden features a tree collection along the grand Wellingtonia Avenue, the Dahlia Walk, an evergreen pinetum, the Chinese Garden and the Egyptian Court, with its smart yew pyramid and stone sphynx by sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse-Hawkins.
Facilities
- Assistance dogs only
- Children’s play area
- Gift shop
- Parking
- Plant sales
- Refreshments
- Toilets
Key features
- Sculpture
- Pond or lake
- Autumn colour
Get involved
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