Eating and shopping at Morden Hall Park

Catering assistant making drinks in the café at Morden Hall Park, London — There's a range of drinks and snacks to choose from | © National Trust Images/Rob Stothard

Treat yourself on a visit to Morden Hall Park - there are plenty of tasty, locally and sustainably sourced treats for you to enjoy. Enjoy breakfast and hot food at the Potting Shed Café, or pop into the dog-friendly Stableyard Café for a quick coffee. Browse the second-hand bookshop to take home a book for someone special, or yourself.

The Potting Shed Café

The Potting Shed Café is open daily, offering sustainably and locally sourced produce, where possible, including vegetables from the kitchen garden next door.

The Chatty Cafe Scheme

The cafe is also home to the Chatty Cafe scheme. Visit every Tuesday between 11am and 12pm where you'll find a team of volunteers at our Chatty Table ready to welcome you for company and conversation.

The Stableyard Café

Pop into the dog-friendly Stableyard Café with its tempting array of fresh, home-baked cakes, savouries and hand-scooped ice cream if you fancy treating yourself.

Allergen information

Most of the food and drink served is prepared on site in our kitchen, using a wide range of ingredients. As a result, we can’t guarantee that any of our food and drink products are completely allergen free.

If you have an allergy or intolerance and would like ingredient information about the food and drink served, please ask the staff, who will be happy to help.

Always check when you visit

Visited before? We sometimes change our recipes to improve quality and flavour, including the ingredients. When you visit, please speak to one of our team to check the current allergen information for your favourite dish.

Thank you

Every cuppa or tasty treat you buy helps us to continue looking after places for everyone to enjoy.

Remember your reusable cup

Every time you present a reusable cup when you order a hot drink at one of the cafés, you’ll get 25p off as a thank-you for helping the environment by reducing the number of disposable cups used.

The Stableyard second-hand bookshop

Why not pick up a bargain in the well-stocked second-hand bookshop? Open daily, it’s next to the Stableyard Café in what were once the looseboxes for the estate’s horses.

A-board sign outside of the second-hand bookshop at Sudbury Hall and the National Trust Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire — Browse the second-hand bookshop at Morden Hall Park | © National Trust Images/John Millar

Here you’ll find everything from beautiful art books to practical cooking and gardening guides, as well as best-selling fiction and children’s books.

Prices are unbeatable: Paperback at £2 and Hardbacks at £3 (unless stated otherwise). Every book you buy contributes to vital maintenance and conservation work at Morden Hall Park.

Over the years, your donations and purchases have supported numerous projects, including the repair of the park’s iconic clock tower in 2019. More recently, they have funded the acquisition of new, greener, and more efficient LED lights for the Stableyard, which includes the Bookshop, Café, Office, and Exhibition space. Additionally, your contributions have enabled us to provide new, more accessible outdoor furniture for both our cafés, and essential equipment and tools for the Garden & Outdoor Team.

Between 2019 and 2023, the bookshop raised over £117,000. In 2024 alone, it raised £64,000 which has contribtued toward the management and conversation of the wetlands and meadows as a priority habitats to help nature thrive.

Donate to the bookshop

Good-condition books, jigsaw puzzles, CDs and Vinyl LPs are welcome. We are not able to accept encyclopaedias, technical manuals, Readers Digest compilations, magazines, leaflets, videos, and books in poor or damaged condition. Small donations can be accepted the bookshop. For larger donations, please email to arrange a mutually convenient time and place to drop off.