Bev Peacock – Tatton Park recce, 25th August 2024

Saturday’s walk around Tatton Park is roughly 6 miles, mainly flat and with no stiles. We start at the stable’s courtyard, with toilet facilities, and we then take a nice gentle walk through the park, hoping to see the herds of deer and sheep. We take in the memorial to the parachute regiment that trained there in the 2nd World War. On past the old hall we then pass along by the lake, heading out of Tatton Park into Knutsford for lunch in a little park area, picnic tables, lots of benches and a duck pond. Again, there are toilet facilities, but up a small hill and they cost 30p. We then walk around the back of Knutsford, back into Tatton Park.
At the entrance into Tatton Park there are again more toilet facilities, and we then walk away from the lake alongside the old beech drive, past the ice house to take in the Temple form outside the gardens. This route has a slight incline but once up, is mainly flat.
We then arrive back at the stables, where there is a farm shop, a second-hand book shop, a tearoom (if open) and a café. The café does sell bottled beer and small bottles of wine, Ian said it would and he was right.*This is also where you will find the entrance to the gardens. The cost is £9 to walk around but it is free entry with valid proof for National Trust members and members of Historic Houses, RHS or Tatton Garden Society.
So don’t forget your NT or RHS membership if you are wishing to walk round the garden and they are well worth a walk around, I could have spent all day in there.