Lavenham & Beth Chatto Gardens

Friday 4th April 2025

We spend the morning in the tranquil town of Lavenham. With its Tudor houses, crooked, half-timbered cottages and 15th Century Wool church, it’s easy to understand why the streets of Lavenham have been used as background for TV and films including Lovejoy and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Known as England’s best preserved medieval village and one of Suffolk’s important wool towns, you can spend hours exploring Lavenham, one of the most picturesque villages in England.

In the early part of the afternoon we make our way to Beth Chatto Gardens, where five beautifully kept themed gardens await us.

She took an overgrown wasteland of brambles, parched gravel and boggy ditches, transforming it using plants adapted by nature to thrive in different conditions and as a result you will get to see her truly inspirational and tranquil garden that she created in a woodland, gravel, scree, reservoir and water garden setting.

See this link to read about the story of Beth Chatto.

There is a nursey of well stocked plants available to purchase and a tea-room.

Price Includes:

- Coach Travel
- Admission to Beth Chatto Gardens

 Adult: £41 ~ Senior £40 ~ Child: £37

Pick Up Route: SE1M