Painshill, Surrey. Visit this truly magical park filled with glorious follies and the WOW factor!

Painshill is an 18th century landscaped garden, created between 1738 and 1773 by the Hon. Charles Hamilton, who was the 9th son and 14th child of the Sixth Earl of Abercorn. He embarked on two Grand Tours before acquiring the land of Painshill, and his vision was to create living paintings, inspired by the art and architecture he had seen in Europe. The result was a series of magical follies in a breathtaking landscape vista. Everything you see here has been created (during faithful restoration of the garden since 1981- it had been allowed to fall into ruin) and works with the natural landscape to surprise and delight.
Come and take a walk in my shoes through the twinkling Crystal Grotto; stand in the Gothic Temple, which is designed to offer medieval-church-style viewing windows over the park; wander around the Serpentine Lake, which was created by flooding the River Mole; and see if you can spot the heron or the odd muntjac.
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Thank you for visiting, we hope to be able to welcome you back to Painshill again soon🌳