News from Athelhampton House & Gardens.

We wish a Merry Christmas to all our friends and visitors. The Christmas Tree in the Tudor Great Hall at Athelhampton House Dorset is cold, calm, and full of winter light, the kind that feels quietly enchanted. Not a white Christmas at Athelhampton, but a soft golden one, sunlight glimmering into the Great Hall beside the Christmas tree. Dorset's finest Tudor manor house will be open to welcome you again from the 27th

A red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning, as the old saying goes. A beautiful sunrise reflecting in the River Piddle An early walk at Athelhampton before the historic gardens began to stir, and the Iron Bridge was bathed in the first light of the sunrise. The bridge straddles the River Piddle, one of Dorset's chalk streams. Calm and reflective, the clean water caught the brief, fiery moment when night gives way to day, looking like a moving watercolour painting. It's a pr

A variety of shiny baubles being carefully placed on the Christmas tree Athelhampton’s gardening team know a thing or two about the trees that fill our gardens. But for a couple of magical days each year they step into the cosy glow of the Tudor house and turn their talents to some very different trees. Ladders normally used for pruning climbing Roses are moved indoors so that the star can be placed atop the Great Hall Christmas tree With shimmering baubles, slices of candied