Stately Homes and Private Gardens Tours

Custom built tours

Customised private tours in Wales

Colourful scenes
Colourful scenes
Plas Newydd
Plas Newydd
Penrhyn Castle
Penrhyn Castle
Plas Brondanw
Plas Brondanw
Portmeiron
Portmeiron
  • Totally customisable
  • Local guide
  • Hotel pickup & dropoff

North Wales is full of gardens. So many, in fact, you’d be forgiven for wondering where one ends and the next one starts. Things grow bigger and better in our great outdoors, too. It’s our climate that does it. Being so close to the sea, and all that rain. Which could explain why there are 18 record-breaking trees at Bodnant Garden. And why Dibleys nursery has picked up 18 gold awards at the Chelsea Flower Show. And you won’t be surprised that Portmeirion has plants usually found in the Brazilian rainforest growing happily outdoors.  We can arrange private sightseeing tours for small groups and include visits to Stately Homes, which are plentiful in the area and Private Garden of your choice.Information on Gardens of North Wales - http://www.gardensnorthwales.co.uk/

We can include visits to

  • Bodant Gardens
  • Plas Cadnant Hidden Gardens
  • Plas Newydd
  • Castell Penrhyn
  • Plas yn Rhiw
  • Portmeirion
  • Plas Brondanw
  • Plas Mawr

Some of the main sights

Ivy growing on the walls of Penrhyn Castle
Ivy growing on the walls of Penrhyn Castle

Penrhyn Castle

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At Penrhyn Castle, surrounding the neo-Norman Castle, which is a must-see at any time of year, there are 45 acres of grounds ranging from rolling parkland to formal gardens. Anyone who enjoys gardens will have plenty to choose from, including the sprawling collection of exotic trees and shrubs, expanses of idyllic parkland and Victorian walled garden.The castle grounds have plenty to show as the year turns, from daffodils in the Spring, through colourful Summer bedding to dazzling Autumn colour.

Stunning gardens at Plas Cadnant
Stunning gardens at Plas Cadnant

Plas Cadnant Hidden Gardens

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Plas Cadnant Hidden Gardens, near Menai Bridge on Anglesey, have undergone a spectacular transformation. They were first laid out in 1804 in the 'picturesque' style of Humphrey Repton, the famous Victorian landscape designer. However, over a long period, the gardens had become derelict, only to be rediscovered and recreated in the last twenty years by the present owner.

Unfortunately, just as the work was all but complete, a tremendous storm washed away much of the newly restored garden. Through hard work, dedication and determination, the owner and his team have restored the magnificent ten acres of gardens to their former glory.

Picturesque views at Bodnant Gardens
Picturesque views at Bodnant Gardens

Bodnant Garden in the Conwy Valley

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Bodnant Gardens in the Conwy Valley are a botanical dream. The gardens combine formal and wild, and take advantage of a naturally dramatic wooded valley alongside the rivers and lakes. You can see the flourishing of seeds and cuttings assembled on intrepid expeditions more than a century ago, accompanied by lawns, ponds, terraces, valleys and streams within one incredible 80-acre garden. Enormous arch flowers, growing almost 200 feet, are among the spectacular seasonal flourishes here, not to mention the 200-year-old trees.

Plas Mawr
Plas Mawr

Plas Mawr

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Plas Mawr stands as a symbol of a prosperous, buoyant age.

The Elizabethan era. A golden age? Think Renaissance and Shakespeare. Think Plas Mawr. An Elizabethan gem worth its weight in gold. The finest town house of its period in Britain.
Its owner Robert Wynn, an influential merchant of great repute, was particularly fond of grandeur and colour. He also liked entertaining. Lavishly. Behold his finest hour, a grand house built between 1576 and 1585 in the heart of medieval Conwy’s narrow cobbled streets. A house which more than matched his grandiose ambitions.

Plas Newydd overlooking the Menai Straits
Plas Newydd overlooking the Menai Straits

Plas Newydd

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Plas Newydd is a country house set in gardens, parkland and surrounding woodland on the north bank of the Menai Strait, in Llanddaniel Fab, near Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, Wales. The current building has its origins in 1470, and evolved over the centuries to become one of Anglesey's principal residences. Owned successively by Griffiths, Baylys and Pagets, it became the country seat of the Marquesses of Anglesey, and the core of a large agricultural estate. The house and grounds, with views over the strait and Snowdonia, are open to the public, having been owned by the National Trust since 1976

Portmeirion with a backdrop of the beautiful mountains
Portmeirion with a backdrop of the beautiful mountains

Portmeirion

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Portmeirion was created by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis from 1925 to 1976. He wanted to show how a naturally beautiful site could be developed without spoiling it.

Aside from its iconic architecture, scenic surroundings and vast woodland gardens.
Clough Williams-Ellis had conceived of a tightly grouped coastal village on some romantic clifftop site, perhaps on an island or a remote estuary. This idea stayed with him for about 20 years until in 1925 he found the Aber Iâ estate on the Dwyryd estuary near his home. It was more or less exactly what he had been hoping for, and it was for sale - he bought it for what is said to be around £5,000.

The first thing he did was change the name to Portmeirion. He did not feel Aber Iâ was appropriate as it could mean 'frozen river mouth' which was not ideal for a holiday resort.

Additional Tour Information

Can I include this tour as part of a multi-day tour?
Yes! All of our tours are fully customisable and can be included into a multi-day tour.
Included
Your knowledgeable local guide • Pick up and drop off to your hotel
Not included
Admission fees to the Gardens & Stately Homes
To help you enjoy the day
Please wear sensible footwear for some light walking and bring a rain jacket (just in case!) As we tour, we will make suggestions for eating places that our guests have enjoyed visiting

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Clients love this tour!

A superb bespoke tour! We approached Celticos with only a vague idea of what we wanted from our late-December day out, just a taster of an area we had not visited before. The day was superb, and from the moment he picked us up from our hotel.

Paul A New Malden, United Kingdom

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