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Pages from Nature: Walk through the Pleasure Grounds

Celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the publication of the 1824 guidebook to Croome, the Hortus Croomensis. Explore the views, scents and sounds of the garden at Croome using your own Hortus Croomensis booklet to guide you.

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Purchase a booklet inspired by the 1824 guidebook to Croome, the Hortus Croomensis, to explore the garden. Find out the history behind the landscape design; take time to sketch in the booklet, pause along the way to smell scents in the special scent boxes – can you guess what they are? Read quotes from the 1824 text to feel transported back 200 years.

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All Per Booklet£3.00
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Yes

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What to bring and wear

Weather appropriate clothing it is outdoors

Accessibility

The route is approx. 2 miles long and is on hard surface paths.

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Pages from Nature exhibition 

Pages from Nature is a 200-year anniversary exhibition celebrating the publication of William Dean’s Hortus Croomensis; a detailed record of the vast and varied plant collection at Croome in 1824.

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on
17 Sep 2025 to 1 Mar 2026
at
10:00 to 16:00
+ 165 other dates or times

Garden tours at Croome 

An introduction to the landscape at Croome. Find out more about the history and restoration of the garden and park at Croome on one of our volunteer-led tours.

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on
17 Sep to 30 Oct 2025
at
11:00 to 12:00
+ 13 other dates or times

History of RAF Defford walk - 2025 

A walk through Croome Park reveals the way in which RAF Defford changed the 18th century landscape created by Lancelot ”Capability” Brown. Along the way, there are stories of an extraordinary airfield waiting to be told.

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on
17 Sep to 6 Nov 2025
at
11:00 to 13:00
+ 2 other dates or times

Wild Imagination Exhibition with Sarah Taylor Silverwood 

Wild Imagination is a new animation and accompanying soundtrack by artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood.

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on
17 Sep 2025 to 4 Jan 2026
at
11:00 to 16:00
+ 109 other dates or times