Queen Eleanor’s Garden

The Great Hall, Winchester, Hampshire
Tel: 01962 846476

In medieval times a garden offered pleasure, repose and refreshment to the senses as well as food and medicine. Queen Eleanor’s Garden is an accurate example of such a garden and features include turf seats, bay hedges, a fountain, camomile lawn, tunnel arbour and many beautiful herbs and flowers of the time.

Situated just outside the South Door of The Great Hall is a re-creation of a medieval herbarium named after Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III and her daughter-in-law Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I.

The garden was opened in 1986 by The Queen Mother as part of the Domesday celebrations and it has featured recently in the BBC's Royal Gardens programme presented by Alan Titchmarsh.