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Photo of Whatton House Gardens, a garden near Long Whatton, Leicestershire, central England.

© Alan Murray-Rust / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Whatton House Gardens

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Whatton’s gardens spread out below a Victorian house near Long Whatton, laid out from the 1870s with formal beds, long herbaceous borders and ornamental ponds. The oddity is the Chinese Garden, dotted with copies of the terracotta warriors among the planting. It sits in parkland on the Leicestershire–Nottinghamshire fringe and opens on selected days from spring to autumn.

More places to visit near Whatton House Gardens

Photo of the Grand Union Canal, a 137-mile canal running from Brentford to Birmingham, England.Highlight

Grand Union Canal

Canal

London to Birmingham by water — the trunk route of the canal age, with arms reaching Leicester, Aylesbury, Northampton and Paddington.

0.6 km E · spans 9 counties

Photo of Great Central Railway, a visitor attraction near Quorn, Leicestershire, central England.Highlight

Great Central Railway

Attraction near Quorn

Britain's only double-track heritage main line, running steam and diesel trains between Loughborough and Leicester North.

6.4 km SE

Photo of the River Trent, a 95-mile river navigation running from Shardlow to Trent Falls, central England.Highlight

River Trent

River navigation

The powerhouse river of the Midlands, navigable from Shardlow through Nottingham and Newark to the tidal reaches at Gainsborough.

6.8 km N · Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Derbyshire

Photo of the Trent & Mersey Canal, a 93-mile canal running from Preston Brook to Shardlow, England.

Trent & Mersey Canal

Canal

Brindley's Grand Trunk of 1777 — Potteries bottle kilns, the Anderton Boat Lift and the long darkness of Harecastle Tunnel.

7.4 km NW · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

Photo of The Outwoods, a landmark near Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire, central England.Highlight

The Outwoods

Landmark near Woodhouse Eaves

Ancient hillside wood above Loughborough, famous for its spring bluebells and views across Charnwood.

8.3 km S

Photo of Breedon on the Hill, a village in Leicestershire, central England.Highlight

Breedon on the Hill

Village

Village under a limestone crag crowned by a Saxon church, with a domed lock-up on the green below.

8.6 km W · Leicestershire