Plan your visit
Opening hours
Visit one of the Cotswolds’ best kept secrets.
* Our opening days and times are subject to change due to the coronavirus outbreak. Please visit our News pages for the latest updates. Prebooking is essential, click here for more information.*
We recommend you allow at least two hours for your visit, plus time for refreshments and browsing the gorgeous goodies in our gift shop. And yes, we do welcome dogs!
An online copy of our map can be viewed here.
Ticket prices
We’re a registered charity with the sole aim of preserving, maintaining and improving the country’s only surviving rococo garden as a place of historic and ecological interest and beauty.
Your visit helps us to do this – thank you.
*If you’re a UK taxpayer, donating 10% above our standard entry fee allows us, as a charity, to claim back the tax you’ve already paid.
Your donation is worth an additional 25p in the pound to help us with our work.
For information about our current opening times and how to pre-book, please click here.
How to find us
By car: enter GL6 6TH into your satnav, or follow the brown tourism signs on all major approach routes. Painswick Rococo Garden is 15 minutes’ drive from junction 11a of the M5. Parking is free.
By train: our nearest station is Stroud (5 miles).
By bus: Stagecoach service 66 from Cheltenham to Gloucester, via Stroud.
On foot: we’re just off the Cotswold Way, in beautiful countryside, and well signposted from the corner of Golf Course Road and Gloucester Road.
By bike: cyclists are very welcome. We don’t have bike racks but you’re welcome to lock your bike near the café. We’re surrounded by hills so you’ll have earned a slice of homemade cake by the time you reach us!
Food and drink
Our popular, welcoming Café is currently serving a simple takeaway menu of hot and cold drinks, cakes and ice creams.
Located in the historic former Coach House at the entrance to the garden, it’s open to the public whether you’re visiting the Garden or not.
Our Café is open when the Garden is open. Lunches are not currently available – you are welcome to bring a picnic with you. The Café closes half an hour before the Garden closes.
Our Café offers…
wheelchair access
free wifi
loyalty cards for regular visitors
a warm welcome to well behaved dogs
gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan options
Getting around
Both our Café and Shop are accessible to wheelchairs and buggies. We also have an accessible toilet, and a toilet with baby-changing facilities.
The Garden itself was built in a hidden valley almost 300 years ago. Paths are both steep and uneven, and only around a fifth of the garden is accessible to wheelchairs – download our access routes map to help you plan your visit. **Please be aware that our temporary exit route from the Garden is not suitable for those with mobility difficulties.**
The steepest slopes all have handrails, and there are 45 benches dotted around the Garden for when you need to rest. The Garden isn’t suitable for motorised scooters.
If you’d like advice on visiting Painswick Rococo Garden with a wheelchair or buggy, or you have a question on accessibility,
call us on 01452 813204 – we’ll be glad to help.
Entry is free to carers of registered disabled visitors.