Wakehurst Seed Bank

Approximate Journey Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Time at destination: Minimum of 5 hours

There will be a comfort stops on route. 

Your journey starts in the morning from the local area. The coach will travel to Wakefield via the M3 and M25 stopping on route for a 15 minute comfort stop at Fleet Services and arrive at approximately 11.00. You are free to explore at your leisure. Your driver will arrange your pick up times in advance which will be approximately 16.30.

Wakehurst, previously known as Wakehurst Place, is a house and botanic gardens in the county of West Sussex, owned by the National Trust and managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It comprises a late 16th-century mansion, a mainly 20th-century garden and, in a modern building, Kew's Millennium Seed Bank. Visitors are able to see the gardens, the Mansion, and also visit the seed bank. The garden today covers a massive two square miles (490 acres) and includes walled and water gardens, woodland and wetland conservation areas.

Kew has leased the land from the National Trust since 1965 and much has been achieved in this time, from the Millennium Seed Bank project and the creation of the Loder Valley and Francis Rose Nature Reserves to the introduction of the visitor centre, the Seed café and Stables restaurant along with the development of the gardens.