The Valley Gardens, Harrogate, is a 17-acre English Heritage Grade II listed garden in regal Low Harrogate, next to the Pinewoods woodlands.
It includes beautiful historic buildings, such as the Sun Pavilion and colonnades, which sit alongside a wide variety of shrub, flower and herbaceous beds.
Facilities include:
- children’s playground
- skate park suitable for BMX, skateboards and scooters
- band concerts on Sunday afternoons from June to the end of August
- paddling pool (seasonal)
- games pavilion selling light refreshments (winter opening, weekends only 11am-3pm)
- games in the valley gardens including tennis, pitch and putt and crazy golf
- Magnesia Well cafe selling light refreshments – opening times vary.
- toilets
- orienteering
- children’s boating pool
Increasing biodiversity
Our parks and open spaces staff, and Harrogate in Bloom, have worked with award-winning garden designer Paul Hervey-Brookes, to design and plant areas in public places that will increase biodiversity and create improved habitats for wildlife. The Nectar Bar planting is particularly attractive to bees and other pollinating insects, including moths.