A Tudor-style house and walled gardens beneath a 14th-century tower, with a symbolic maze, a wisteria pergola and a rare donkey wheel, just outside Henley-on-Thames.
From King's Cross St Pancras: 1 h 55 min by train · 1 h 32 min by car
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Time there: 2.5–3.5 h
Get directionsFive small walled gardens hold old-fashioned roses, a wisteria pergola and an ornamental vegetable garden, overlooked by a tower that is the only surviving part of the medieval castle.
A Tudor-style mansion built within the courtyard walls of a medieval fortified house, with a rare Tudor donkey wheel in the well house that was used until the early twentieth century.
A brick-path turf maze with Christian symbolism, seven rings for the seven days of creation among them, was inspired by Archbishop Robert Runcie and dedicated by him in 1981.
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