Facilities & Access

General

  • Orangery Cafe - home cooked lunches and teas
  • Shop - gifts, seasonal produce and plants
  • Refreshment kiosk - open air seating in piazza area (main car park)
  • Dovecote Coffee House - serving morning coffee and afternoon tea
  • Toilets - in the Gas Yard (off main car park) and at Orangery
  • To respect the privacy of hotel guests, no photos are allowed in the house
  • Dog walking under close control in the woodlands. Assistance dogs welcome throughout gardens and cafe facilities
  • Designated picnic areas with picnic benches
  • On site car parking (included within admission fees)
  • Introductory film 'Cliveden: Camelot on Thames' showing in the Gas Yard cinema

Family & children

  • Storybook Play Den - imaginative play area for the under 10s
  • The Cliveden Maze is great fun for children and adults alike (please accompany children under 11)
  • Pick up a free family trail sheet to explore the gardens. Available from the information centre
  • The goal posts on the north paddock are ideal for a game of football
  • Baby-changing facilities in Gas Yard (off main car park) and Orangery toilets
  • All-terrain baby buggies available to borrow from the information centre
  • Buggy friendly route map available from the information centre
  • Orangery CafĂ© offers a children's menu, high chairs and a baby bottle and food warming station

Access

  • Designated parking spaces available for disabled visitors in main car park
  • Gardens have hard gravel paths, some steep slopes, undulating terrain and steps
  • Suggested level access map around gardens available from information centre
  • Accessible toilets in Gas Yard (off main car park) and next to Orangery
  • A volunteer-driven shuttle bus operates at regular intervals between the main car park, gardens and Orangery
  • Five manual wheelchairs available to borrow from the information centre (pre-bookable on 01628 605 069)
  • Sensory attraction - fragrant plants in the gardens
  • Orangery, Dovecote and Shop - level access
  • Guided house tours (April - October on Thursdays and Sundays) - level entrance with five internal steps part way through tour
  • Large print garden guide available from information centre
  • Access to riverbank and boat trips is approximately 30 minute walk from car park and includes 172 steps
  • Maze accessible to manual wheelchairs and we'd suggest a visit on a quieter day