Toddington Park, Bedfordshire

Park House, a Grade II-listed Georgian manor house, sits within 30 acres of Toddington Park, surrounded by rolling countryside with beautiful panoramic views. There are also the renovated coach house and stables, the original Victorian model dairy and the stunning one-acre lake to discover.

Tour the grounds, with a talk by the owners on the history of the house and a  discussion on their rewilding projects. Spanning 30 acres, the estate includes over 100 specimen trees, a lake, ponds, woodland and wildflower meadows, with plans to add bees and wetland.

Local wildlife spotted includes; cormorants, herons, kite nests, sparrow hawks, stoats, mice, voles, woodpeckers, bats, foxes, badgers, owls, muntjac, hares, rabbits. The tour will also include a brief guide to a range of native foraged foods found on the estate.

William Dodge Cooper Cooper inherited the neighbouring Toddington Manor in 1824 but it was in no state to live in, and so they built Park House (named after their London family home, and known in Toddington simply as The Park). In 1898 the house was leased by Robert Standish Sievier (a journalist and race horse owner) by which he could use the grounds to entertain his friends. He commissioned the groundsman of Lords to build him a cricket pitch and the M.C.C. led by W.G. Grace visited to play Sieviers XI.

After sitting empty from 1905 to 1907, The Park was sold to Colonel Mercer (of Moggerhanger Park), before being requisitioned as a base for the Women’s Land Army in 1939.

The tour includes the exterior of the house, drawing room, entrance and dining room, exhibits and talk by a local historian, discussion with the owners on their rewilding projects, Victorian model dairy, converted stables, coach and fire engine house, grounds including arboretum, lake and pond.

Tickets: £24.50 including tea/coffee and cake

Please note: much of the tour is outside on grass and suitable footwear is recommended

Access: some shallow gravel. Two steps to house entrance. Gardens are wheelchair accessible and parking is available (use entrance at: ///rooms.octagon.attaching). Spacious downstairs toilet, but no handrails or large levers.

Please see our cancellation policy below:
If you cancel more than two weeks before the tour is scheduled to take place, we will fully refund your ticket money excluding any phone booking fees. If it’s less than 14 days before a tour, for any reason, we regret that we cannot refund your ticket money unless we can resell your ticket(s). If we cancel at any time, we will fully refund your ticket money. Although we make every effort to avoid it, sometimes a tour has to be cancelled at short notice due to circumstances beyond our control. In this case, we cannot accept responsibility for, or refund, any consequential losses, such as money spent on travel or accommodation.