Things to do · Chipping Campden
Kiftsgate Court Gardens
A garden near Chipping Campden made by three generations of women gardeners, close to Hidcote, with a bluebell wood and free parking.
The other great garden by Hidcote, and a quieter one. Visit both on the same day: they are half a mile apart. Dogs stay out of the garden, with a grass area by the overflow car park to stretch their legs, and bring a card for the tea room.
- Good: Close to Hidcote
- Good: Historic Houses members go free
- Good: Plants from the garden's nursery for sale
- Worth knowing: No dogs in the garden
- Worth knowing: No concessions on the adult price
- Worth knowing: Only about a third of the garden suits wheelchairs
About
Kiftsgate Court, near Chipping Campden, is a garden made by three generations of women: Heather Muir, Diany Binny and Anne Chambers. It gives its name to the Kiftsgate rose, and takes in a wide border, a white sunk garden, a rose border, terraces and a bank down to a lower garden, a water garden, and a drive through a bluebell wood. Hidcote is half a mile away.
Adults pay £12.50 and children under 16 £5 in 2026, with a £32 season ticket and £11.50 a head for groups of 20 or more; there are no concessions, but Historic Houses members go free. The garden opens on its own published days through the season, and in 2026 also for the National Garden Scheme, so check its dates before you go. Allow about an hour and a half.
The tea room serves cakes, cream teas, sandwiches and light lunches, paid by card only, and plants grown in the garden's nursery are on sale. Dogs are not allowed in the garden. Picnics are not allowed in the garden; there is a picnic table on the lawn by the drive. The walk from Mickleton to Hidcote and Kiftsgate comes up from the village below.
Opening hours and season
Opening days and times change through the season; the garden publishes them on its own opening-times page.
Facilities
- Car parkFree, gravel
- Tea roomCard payment only
- Plants and gift shopPlants grown in the garden's nursery
- ToiletsIn the courtyard
- No dogs in the gardenA grass area by the overflow car park
The details
- Time to allow
- About an hour and a half, plus the tea room
- Features
- Café · Shop · Parking
- Without a car
- Honeybourne, on the line from London Paddington, is the nearest station but has no taxi rank, so pre-book a taxi. Taxis are usually waiting at Moreton-in-Marsh, 15 to 20 minutes away by car.
Photos
The Wide Border 
Roses and daisies in June 
The tulip tree avenue in autumn 
Snowdrops
Location
Places to stay nearby
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Three Ways House Hotel
Hotel · Chipping Campden
A 48-room hotel at Mickleton, three miles from Chipping Campden, home of the Pudding Club since 1985, with pudding-themed rooms and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Howard Arms
Pubs · Ilmington
A 400-year-old stone inn on Lower Green in Ilmington, with a log fire, a restaurant, a snug and a garden, eight bedrooms and food from breakfast to dinner every day.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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The Eight Bells Inn
Inn · Chipping Campden
A pub with six rooms on Church Street, Chipping Campden, serving lunch and dinner, on Church Street.
Verified Nov 2026
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Hidcote 0.5 km away
- The Kings Arms, Mickleton 1.3 km away
- Three Ways House Hotel 1.3 km away
- The Ebrington Arms 3.4 km away
Sights nearby
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Kiftsgate Stone
Sight · Monument · Chipping Campden
A small holed standing stone on the Cotswold edge west of Chipping Campden, the meeting place of the hundred of Kiftsgate, where the proclamations of new monarchs were read up to William IV in 1830. A scheduled monument about 30m from the Cotswold Way.
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St Lawrence's Church, Mickleton
Sight · Church · Chipping Campden
Mickleton's Grade I church at the foot of the Cotswold edge below Hidcote and Kiftsgate: a twelfth-century nave, a fourteenth-century tower and broach spire, a two-storey seventeenth-century porch, and Utrecia Smith's urn, which the poet Shenstone wrote about.
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St Mary's Church, Ilmington
Sight · Church · Shipston-on-Stour
St Mary's Church in Ilmington, below the hills north-west of Shipston-on-Stour, is a Norman church of the mid twelfth century with a sixteenth-century porch and eleven carved mice hidden in its oak pews by Robert Thompson of Kilburn. Grade I; open daily from 9am.
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St James's Church, Chipping Campden
Sight · Church · Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden's wool church at the end of Church Street: a soaring fifteenth-century tower, William Grevel's brass of 1401, Sir Baptist Hicks's marble tomb and a medieval cope and altar hangings. Grade I, open to visitors most days.