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A most enjoyable day in all respects

Beautiful panoramas of lake and surrounding countryside. Most informative, well-presented, tour by Jean our guide: amazing memory to achieve such a comprehensive hour-long tour. Elegant and interesting house interiors. Friendly and helpful staff at entrance. Excellent food at garden centre cafe. Shame an entrance to the old castle is not from within grounds of the house. Overall, a brilliant day.

The best castle & grounds around.

We visited the castle & gardens today (27/8) & we absolutely fell in love with this place! We didn't want to leave! The gardens and lake are truly beautiful, so peaceful to walk around with nature trails to follow, beautiful plants & trees. Designed by Capability Brown they are a perfect example of gardens from that period. We took a tour of the castle and were blown away by the beautiful rooms furnished with lovely furniture, paintings, porcelain & family heirlooms passed down over the generations from Sir Walter Raleigh (who built the castle) to the present day. Our tour guide Tony was exceptional. His passion & knowledge of the castle and grounds was amazing - the best tour guide we've ever had (& we've had quite a few!). We will definitely be back & please plan a visit if you are ever in Dorset. You won't be disappointed.

Don't miss this place

What a great place, history and nature at its best, the gardens are stunning, please not if walking the whole of the grounds it is a big walk, but plenty of seats to rest, it's a place you could go time after time especially with the season change.

A thoroughly enjoyable day out

What a magical estate with stunning grounds. I also very much enjoyed my guided tour: I particularly liked the authenticity of each piece of furniture and Jonathan's commentary was excellent. Very entertaining! The history of both Sir Walter Raleigh and the Wingfield Digby family was very interesting. Took forward to sharing my knowledge with my students in France - especially the merchant navy officers who will love the stories about Sir Walter Raleigh! Thank you so much for a wonderful visit.

I can absolutely recommend Sherborne Castle & Gardens to all England lovers! You should definitely take the combination ticket for the castle and the garden because the castle is really great! A guided tour (in English) is included in the price. We had Adam as our tour guide who made the tour really charming and fun. The many rooms from different eras that we were able to visit are beautiful and very well preserved. The price-performance ratio is absolutely reasonable. My husband and I would love to come here again!

What a wonderful place Amazing castle to go round with great tour guides Lovely gardens All very clean and maintained. Friendly staff BIG BONUS that it's dog friendly in the gardens

It was a grey wet day but had a lovely time looking around Sherborne Castle and its grounds. Ticket prices are sensible and the castle beautiful, well worth the visit even on a rainy day

The gardens were beautiful and my family and I had a tour around the castle with the tour guide Jill who was one of the best tour guides I've met. She was enthusiastic and was generally funny. Would definitely recommend!

A very pleasant place to spend a few hours A fine example of Capability Brown's landscaping to explore. Wheelchair accessible paths with plenty of seating. There is a restaurant at the castle garden centre which serves a variety of food to cater for most tastes. Well worth a visit.

Both Garden's and castle are very well preserved. We loved the tour. Our guide Bill was great and had lots of interest facts to share with us. We've seen other castles but this one was our favourite!

Spent a great day wandering around gardens, exploring and learning about Sir Walter Raliegh and the spectacular gardens he had some influence over, the plants are amazing, the scenery around the lake calming and visually stunning. The cafe at the garden centre has a good menu and is a welcome resting place for a coffee and food even the resident ducks make you feel relaxed and help finish off any crumbs

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