Mapperton is one of the most important and distinctive gardens in the country.  Winner of the 2020 Historic Houses Garden of the Year award, the gardens are registered Grade II* and are among a handful of the top gardens in the Southwest.  The gardens are famous for their romantic setting, their varied planting, and their sense of tranquillity.

Tucked into a steep north-south combe, the gardens descend from the very formal topiary gardens and Orangery to the North, to an arboretum, beyond which the land unfolds in small, steep valleys and headlands down to the sea five miles away.