Coach Trips To Snowdrops at Colesbourne Manor & Hot Lunch at The Colesbourne Inn

Enjoy a heart-warming winters day out with guided tour around Colesbourne Manor estate, a special historic home of snowdrops in the heart of the Cotswolds.

Started by plant collector Henry John Elwes FRS with the outstanding Galanthus ‘elwesii’, which he found in Turkey in 1874, the snowdrop collection at Colesbourne Park has been greatly enhanced in recent years by great-grandson Sir Henry Elwes and his late wife Carolyn. As featured on BBC Countryfile in 2024, the snowdrop collection is now one of the best in the country with over 300 different varieties.

Walk through the ten acre garden with its woodland and lakeside paths, the Spring Garden and the Formal Garden, to see huge banks of snowdrops, hellebores and other winter plants. The surrounding park, the Arboretum’s collection of trees from around the World and nearby church are also open during the season. *

Following our guided tour we then travel a short distance to The Colesbourne Inn for a well deserved hot lunch. This is a delightful old coaching inn of the Colesbourne Estate dating back to 1827. *

*Colesbourne Manor Estate – Guided Tour included and refreshments.

*The Colesbourne Inn – Set menu. We will contact in due course for your pre-orders.