Join us at The Complete Working Historic Estate of Shugborough as we embark on the most exciting adventure the estate has seen in 200 years.

Shugborough’s walled garden (1805) was once a horticultural centre of excellence renowned across the country for its revolutionary gardening techniques. The Eden-like garden grew an enormous range of produce using the very latest in technology. Gardeners travelled from great houses across the country just to train at the estate’s cutting-edge facility.

It has lain almost derelict for the best part of a century but in 2007, it was restored to its former glory. HOWEVER this is MUCH, MUCH MORE than a restoration and building project.

Now you can step into an environment EXACTLY as it was the year it was built.

You can relive the moment Thomas Anson first stepped into his newly built garden – designed by the famed architect Samuel Wyatt. You will be met with the sight of bare beds and watch as historic costumed characters – bearing the names of gardeners who actually worked in the garden in 1805 – start planting the garden. The characters act and speak exactly as they did in 1805. They plant beds as they were originally with historic varieties of fruit and vegetables – some of them now very rare and others susceptible to disease - working with historically accurate tools and experimenting with 1805 fertilisers and pesticides.

The garden adds to our 'warts-and-all' approach to history allowing Shugborough visitors to experience the the life of the large community of servants and workers needed on a large country estate.