Photo of Lyme Park, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Bollington in the Peak District, Cheshire, north west England.

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Houses & gardens in CheshireCheshire, England

20 houses and gardens in the Albion Guide across Cheshire — see the full houses and gardens directory, or everything to explore in Cheshire.

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Lyme Park

House & garden near Bollington

Palladian mansion and moorland deer park.

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Tatton Park

House & garden near Rostherne

Neoclassical mansion, gardens and vast deer park.

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Little Moreton Hall

House & garden near Astbury

Gloriously wonky moated Tudor timber-framed house.

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Ness Botanic Gardens

Garden near Ness

University of Liverpool's 64-acre botanic gardens above the Dee, founded in 1898 by plant-hunter Arthur Bulley, strong on rhododendrons and rock plants.

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Arley Hall

House & garden near Great Budworth

A double herbaceous border of the 1840s, reckoned the oldest of its kind in England.

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Cholmondeley Castle Gardens

Garden near Cholmondeley

Romantic gardens around a Gothic castle with temple and folly water gardens, a glade, arboretum and lavish herbaceous borders.

Abbeywood Gardens

Garden near Delamere

Family-made gardens near Delamere with a pool garden, exotic borders and woodland walks, plus a café.

Capesthorne Hall Gardens

Garden near Siddington

Woodland, parkland and lakeside gardens with formal rooms and a chapel around a Jacobean-style hall near Siddington.

Stonyford Cottage Gardens

Garden near Cuddington

Monet-like water garden and nursery at Cuddington, with island beds, primulas and a wildlife pond.

Queen's Park, Crewe

House & garden near Nantwich

An 1888 railway-gift park with a boating lake and clock tower.

Tirley Garth

House & garden near Tarporley

An intact Arts and Crafts garden by Thomas Mawson, with an avenue of ancient rhododendrons.

Gawsworth [Old] Hall

House & garden near Gawsworth

A black-and-white Tudor manor with a rare Elizabethan pleasure garden and old tilting ground.

Bluebell Cottage Gardens

Garden near Dutton

Two-acre plantsman's garden and nursery on a quiet lane at Dutton, packed with perennials and edged by bluebell woods.

Hare Hill

House & garden near Prestbury

A National Trust place in Cheshire.

Norton Priory Walled Garden

Garden near Runcorn

Peaceful two-and-a-half-acre Georgian walled garden beside the priory ruins at Runcorn, holder of a national pear collection.

Rode Hall Gardens

Garden near Scholar Green

Repton landscape with a walled kitchen garden, terraced rock garden and a spring show of snowdrops.

The Lovell Quinta Arboretum

Garden near Swettenham

Twenty-eight-acre arboretum at Swettenham begun by astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, with tree avenues, a lake and national collections.

Adlington Hall

House & garden near Prestbury

The Legh family's home for 700 years, with an organ Handel reputedly played.

Eaton Hall

House & garden near Aldford

The Grosvenor seat, its house re-cased as a French château, with 88 acres of gardens.

Grosvenor Park

House & garden near Chester

Chester's Victorian park, laid out by Edward Kemp in the 1860s and finely preserved.