A garden that has been growing for three hundred years and shows no sign of stopping.
This is a private afternoon guided tour of Holker Hall — exclusively for your group of up to seven guests — departing at 1:30pm. You visit the hall and its exceptional gardens on the Cartmel Peninsula, with house entry included and the expert storyteller’s full attention on your group alone. £459 per group, with free cancellation up to 24 hours before the tour.
The afternoon Holker tour follows the same programme as the morning — the cascade garden, the woodland planting, the Victorian house and the full Cavendish family story. The tour departs at 1:30pm and returns to Windermere by approximately 5:00pm.
The afternoon light in the woodland garden and on the cascade is particularly fine from late summer onwards, when the lower sun angle catches the falling water and the shadows of the mature trees lengthen across the formal areas.
The water cascade at Holker takes on a different quality in afternoon light — the sun moving round to illuminate the falls from a lower angle, the woodland shadows shifting. From July onwards this is often the better light for the garden's water features.
The library, the drawing rooms and the sequence of family rooms — comfortable, personal and very much a family home rather than a show house.
Collection from your chosen station.
Arrival on the Cartmel Peninsula. Introduction to the estate.
The full garden tour — cascade, woodland garden, parterre and kitchen garden.
The Victorian interiors and family history.
Depart Holker, arriving back at Windermere or Oxenholme by approximately 5:00pm.