Newby Hall Gardens - Newby Hall - North Yorkshire walks

Route: Newby Hall Gardens

Area: North Yorkshire

Date of walk: 2nd July 2026

Walkers: Andrew and Gilly

Distance: 2.0 miles

Weather: Mostly sunny

We’ve made regular visits to Newby Hall and its award winning gardens for the last 25 years or so, and it’s one of our favourites. There are numerous attractions here for all ages.

A garden plan is handed out at the entrance, but it’s hard to follow a particular route when there are so many areas which catch the eye, depending on the season

On arrival we made a beeline for the double herbaceous border. At 172 metres the border is one of the longest in the country. We wandered up and down the border, which flows down from the hall to the River Ure. It was a spectacular sight and scent, and was buzzing with bees and other insects

There are numerous separate gardens within the garden: to name a few, the Rose Garden, the Water Garden, the Rock Garden, the White Garden and our personal favourite, Sylvia’s Garden, a place for quiet contemplation. We meandered around all of these in turn and were especially impressed by the displays of cornus (dogwood). Newby Hall Gardens are home to the national collection of these beautiful flowering shrubs

It was another wonderful visit to this special place

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Blackboard at the entrance to the garden highlighting some of the flowers in bloom at the moment

We walk over to Newby Hall

The 'Wood Nymph', a statue by David Williams-Ellis

From the front of Newby Hall, looking along the spectacular double herbaceous borders which lead down to the River Ure

There are several intersecting paths but we avoided these temptations and continued along to the end

Views back to Newby Hall...

The taller plants are supported by an almost invisible line of black netting which stretches along both sides of the borders

A pair of pavilions at the end of the border, decorated internally with sea shells. Beyond them is the River Ure

The gardens are home to a National Collection of cornus (dogwood)...

The Rose Pergola

The Rose Garden, designed just before the Second World War by Major Compton

We make our way over to Sylvia's Garden, one of our favourite spaces here

Entrance to Sylvia's Garden

Sylvia's Garden was designed by Major Compton in 1930. He named it after his wife, Sylvia Farquharson (later becoming her memorial garden), and it was planted to peak in May to coincide with York Races