Things to see and do at Goddards House and Garden

Sit back on a comfortable sofa in the drawing room overlooking the gardens. Pick up the paper and toast your toes by the open fires on cold autumn and winter days. Enjoy a sherry before lunch or a lavish Goddards afternoon tea while you relax and soak up the atmosphere in this cosy house and feel right at home.

 

The four acres of gardens were designed by the renowned George Dillistone to complement the house. As well as the floral displays there are yew-hedged garden rooms, intricate water features, rockeries, lawns, trails and hidden pathways. The gardens also feature a bowling green, tennis lawn and an original glass house which is used to this day by the gardening team. There's a young orchard with promise of yields to come which for now has wonderful views over the racecourse to the site of the old factory and the iconic clock tower. The latest addition is a fragrant garden, restoring some of the historic features that would have been around at the time the house was built.

 

 

Goddards is at the heart of York's chocolate heritage. Visit the factory display rooms, sit at the desk of the Terry partners and find out more about the staff from the managing directors to the packers on the factory floor. Read the story of the business, why it grew in York and why it is no longer. Find out what it was like to be a worker at the Terry's factory and discover historic pictures of the Terry's factory.