Garden

Levens Hall

Kendal, North West England

A house with the world's oldest topiary garden, shaped in the 1690s.

Price
Entry charge
Booking
No need to book
Time to allow
3 hours

Levens Hall is an Elizabethan house with a topiary garden laid out in the 1690s by a Frenchman, Guillaume Beaumont. The clipped yews are surreal and well kept. A good rainy-day or half-day option.

Good to know

  • Allow time for the garden
Open
Spring to autumn, check
Getting there
Signed from the A590, car park on site
Vehicles
Campervans fine
Dogs
Dogs on a lead

Facilities

  • Toilets

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