Gardens and cemeteries
The UK is world renowned for its historic designed gardens and cemeteries.
Our funding could:
- help conserve historic structures or recreate lost features
- help historic gardens improve their biodiversity
- restore historic cemeteries including repairing listed monuments and helping people to appreciate their history
- help celebrate and raise awareness of garden designers
- provide training and apprenticeships in heritage horticultural skills
- help people to identify, record and learn about historic gardens
What we have funded so far
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has invested in many historic gardens including:
- Stowe in Buckinghamshire
- Great Dixter in Kent
- Tatton Park in Cheshire
- Wentworth Castle Gardens in South Yorkshire
- the Botanical Gardens of Belfast and Edinburgh
- the National Botanical Gardens of Wales and Kew in London
Explore more gardens projects we've recently funded.