I recently visited Gravetye Manor which is a fabulous hotel and country manor house in the middle of nowhere! Well, in the middle of nowhere in East Grinstead, Sussex.
I was there for a birthday afternoon tea for my Aunt (all dressed up in my glad rags), and we arrived early so that we would have a chance to go around the gardens and the amazing walled kitchen garden!
We got chatting to one of the gardeners and they have seven full time gardeners and several part time volunteers. You can volunteer to work there as well! It really is such a lovely place to wander round, each little pathway has a new planting scheme and several of the plants are reaching head height so you feel like it is your own private little space.
The vegetable garden is mahoosive and has rows of cutting flowers as well as herbs, fruits and vegetables. You can walk all of the way around it, or cut straight through the middle and it's an oasis of calm!
(You know me, can't resist a bit of peeling paint!)
Our tea was really lovely- posh little sandwiches with a slice of sausage roll, the best scones ever, battenburg, macaroons, chocolate and coffee mousse things, tartlets, panna cotta.... the only problem we had is that it was so hot we were almost having to race up to the top level before the chocolate things melted!
The inside is just as grand and glorious, and although I didn't photograph it, definitely take a trip to the bathrooms if you go!!
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