Top Garden Attractions
Bluebells and Wildflowers in the Woodland Garden
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Henry Moore Sculpture Exhibition 2011
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The Woodland Garden has been newly planted and is quite simply beautiful, do make sure you spend time walking this garden and enjoying the selection of stunning plants and well kept borders and hedges. |
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Our 2011 exhibition, Moore at Hatfield, was the largest collection of Henry Moore’s monumental works ever exhibited in the grounds of an historic house. |
The Longitude Dial
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The West Garden
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The Longitude Dial was unveiled in June, at the summer solstice. The dial is a precision timepiece with no moving parts. It relies upon the motion of the Earth to tell the time to the nearest minute.
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Trees guard the entrance to the West Garden, with its Italian eighteenth-century stone figures found by the sixth Marquess and Marchioness at a villa near Lake Como. |
Stone Frieze of Queen Elizabeth and her Courtiers
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Pleached Lime Walk
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At the most westerly edge of the Lime Walk are two stone carvings by J.G. Bubb taken from the facade of the Royal Exchange after a fire and brought to Hatfield in 1855. |
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The Lime Walk connects the Privy Garden with the West Garden and the Sundial and Woodland Gardens, and forms an outer edge to the West Garden. |
The Sundial Garden
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Queen Victoria’s Gates
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The Sundial Garden with its stone-paved and gravel paths is bordered by three ancient brick walls, part of the , and the clipped hedge of the Holly Walk. |
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A walkway lined with half-standard holm oaks in ornate nineteenth-century containers leads to a further set of fine cast-iron gates, matching those on the north side and like them erected for Queen Victoria’s visit in 1846. |
