Marble Hill

30/05/2026

Join us as we celebrate Great Big Green Week (6-14 June) at Marble Hill with three fantastic and FREE tours of the landscape - no booking required, but here's the detail:👇

Saturday 6 June, 1pm | Meadow Tour
Join our Senior Gardener to learn about the recently created meadows at Marble Hill. Find out how these meadow were created, how they're being maintained and why they are so important to biodiversity. Meet outside the house, on the Richmond Road side. No dogs allowed. 🌸

Wednesday 10 June, 11am | Garden Tour
Join a member of the gardens team to learn about the restored eighteenth-century gardens at Marble Hill. Learn about the restoration, how the gardens are maintained and what we're doing to promote biodiversity. Meet outside Marble Hill House, on the Richmond Road side. No dogs allowed. 🌸

Friday 12 June, 11am | Wildlife and Biodiversity Tour
Discover the wildlife of Marble Hill and learn how the site is being cared for to support biodiversity. During the tour, you’ll pick up plenty of practical ideas you can make at home to create wildlife-friendly spaces of your own. Please meet at Marble Hill car park. 🌳🦋

These tours are free to attend and there is no booking required. Please note, capacity is 20 people for the tour, so arrive early to avoid disappointment.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/marble-hill-big-green-week-garden-tours-6-to-12-june/

29/05/2026

Why not take a little bit of Marble Hill home with you? Our gift shop offers a range of plants for sale, supplied by the Hairy Pot Company, so no plastic pots! Some of the plants are very similar to the ones you'll see around our landscape - every effort is made to complement what we are growing at Marble Hill in our retail offering.🌸

Our shop is currently open Weds-Sun from 10am-5pm - along with the House, which is FREE to enter! If you haven't already visited us, please do, it's a gem!

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/marble-hill/prices-and-opening-times/

28/05/2026

The Marble Hill Meadows are looking fantastic and are well worth a visit at this time of year. A partnership between English Heritage and Plant Life to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III is seeing the creation and development of 100 meadows at our sites, and Marble Hill is one of them! 🦋

One of the ways we manage the more dominant grasses in meadow spaces is to introduce Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor), a semi-parasitic plant that attaches its roots to the roots of grasses, feeding off its nutrients and reducing its vigour and competitiveness. In turn, this helps to create a more diverse meadow, with a fairer balance of wildflower species and grasses. 🦋

The garden team at Marble Hill initially had to buy in Yellow Rattle seed to spread it widely enough to make a difference, but we now have enough of this very beneficial species that we'll be able to collect the seed ourselves and use it to sow across any remaining thicker swards of grass. As well as being a very useful plant, it's also very pretty! 🦋

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-me/100-meadows/

📷 Images taken by Senior Gardener Harrison

26/05/2026

Marble Hill House is framed by four elegant hooped arcades planted with Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) a hardwood tree often confused with Beech. The inspiration for this feature is taken from a c.1749 survey of Marble Hill, and is designed to provide a shaded walkway around the more open terraces leading down to the river Thames. 🌳

Planted no more than five years ago, the maturing Hornbeams are beginning to be shaped along the hoops in order to create 'windows' out into the terraces and also into the garden quarters behind the arcades. Initially, they were half a metre shorter, but additional height has been added to create a more harmonious balance between the arcades and the house. 🌳

It will take a while to cover the walkways entirely, but painstaking work is carried out each year to ensure that the young trees are trained correctly, and once they are mature and strong enough, the hoops won't be required to support the structure. 🌳

Here are some images of the arcades today alongside an image of what they should eventually look like. 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

23/05/2026

Join us in celebration of Members' Week 2026 for a special Wildlife Habitat and Biodiversity Tour at Marble Hill Park and Gardens on May 29 from 1-2PM.

Discover the wildlife of Marble Hill and learn how the site is being cared for to support biodiversity. During the tour, you’ll pick up plenty of practical ideas you can try at home to create wildlife-friendly spaces of your own.

Book your spot today: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/mw-marble-hill-wildlife-and-biodiversity-tour-29-may/

22/05/2026

Our Flower Garden has been a riot of colour this spring and it has provided some lovely seasonal interest for our visitors.

We are still being quite experimental with the planting in the flowerbeds here, and many of the specimens on display have been grown from seed by our garden team and volunteers. One thing they all have in common is that they would have been available to purchase or grow during the early 1700s, when Henrietta Howard was laying out her gardens here at Marble Hill.

Here are a couple of photos taken by Visitor Assistant Helen just after our Thursday volunteer group had been in to tidy things up for the weekend.

21/05/2026

As a special thank-you to all English Heritage Members, we will be hosting a special Curator's Tour of Marble Hill House on 27 May from 1-2PM.

Join Emily Burns, Curator of Collections and Interiors for West London, for a guided tour of Marble Hill House. Discover the house’s historic interiors, architectural design, and the stories behind its creation. Book your spot today:

Join Emily Burns, Curator of Collections and Interiors for West London, for a guided tour of Marble Hill House on Wednesday 27 May.

20/05/2026

In celebration of Members Week 2026, we will be hosting a tour of the meadows at Marble Hill House on 25 May from 11AM-12PM for English Heritage Members.

Join our Senior Gardener to learn about the recently created meadows at Marble Hill. Discover how the meadows are being developed and maintained and why they are so important for biodiversity.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/mw-marble-hill-meadow-tour-25-may/

19/05/2026

As a special thank you to our members for your ongoing support, English Heritage are inviting you to Members’ Week 2026.

Between Saturday 23 and Sunday 31 May 2026, we will have free events taking place across the country as well as exclusive discounts in our cafes and shops for EH Members.

Marble Hill will be hosting the following free events, book your spot at the links below!

Meadow Tour at Marble Hill, 25 May, 11AM-12PM:
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/mw-marble-hill-meadow-tour-25-may/

Curator's Tour at Marble Hill, 27 May, 1-2PM:
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/mw-marble-hill-curators-tour-27-may/

Wildlife and Biodiversity Tour at Marble Hill, 29 May, 1-2PM:
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/mw-marble-hill-wildlife-and-biodiversity-tour-29-may/

Join our Senior Gardener to learn about the newly created meadows at Marble Hill on Monday 25 May.

15/05/2026

Members’ Week is back from 23-31 May! 🥳
Members can join us for FREE events that week, including a Meadow Tour on Mon 25 May and Wildlife and Biodiversity Tour on Fri 29 May.

Book online now 👉 https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/members-area/members-events/members-week-all-events/

With thanks to Riviera Travel for their support.