Felley Priory

Lovely little find and just off the M1. We enjoyed waking through Bluebell Wood. The smell was amazing.
The gardens are so well looked after with such beautiful plants and flowers.
Had lunch in the small cafe, very busy and not many tables inside or out but food was lovely.
A fab day out

An oasis of lovelyness. Beautifully designed and kept garden. Tea room well worth the visit lovely staff. Nursery if you want to take plants home for your garden.

Lovely cafe, gardens, as ever are stunning and the plant nursery has excellent value plants with very knowledgeable staff. A great day out!

What a superb place, its been too long since our last visit ! Great tea room with lovely staff & of course good quality plants to tempt you 😉 pop this special place on your To Go To list

Took mom for an afternoon out. Most impressed with all the staff and volunteers. They couldn't have been more helpful and friendly. Beautiful garden but some slopes and gravel paths difficult with mom in wheelchair. Gardens/Groundsmen offered assistance and helped mom to access more of the garden.
Lovely tearoom with good menu and afternoon tea. Again staff very helpful. The food was good and nicely presented. Nursery selling plants. The lovely lady in the nursery helped me into one of greenhouses with mom when rain started. Then helped me back to the car with mom and carried our purchases over in boxes while I helped mom into car. A lovely day out. All the way home mom kept saying how friendly everyone was.

What A Beautiful Place.
Had A Lovely Day would highly recommend.
The Gardens are stunning 😍😍

We had a lovely time here today. The gardens are something else. So pristine and well kept. The most beautiful garden I've ever seen. Very much a hidden gem. We had afternoon tea in the tea rooms, this was perfect, so much food and came away with a bag full. Our 2 minor issues would be, you have to make sure you bring cash for the tea room as they have a minimum spend of £5. We had pre booked and paid for the afternoon tea and order a soft drink on the day, this was £1.20 and had to buy 2 more drinks to make up to £7 to use the card machine. Our other issue is, the garden its self its chargeable. Completely fine and happy to pay, but, there is no way to ensure everyone has paid, you could walk straight in. You pay in the nursery and walk down to it. Now it would be better to make sure the people who have paid know that they have a ticket to be checked or something before entering. You could easily walk in and no one know you've paid or not. Needs some working out on that part

I’m not quite sure whether I want to write this review... I’d recently read about Felley Priory, described as ‘north Nottinghamshire’s best kept secret’, in an RHS publication and it felt just that, so much so, that I made a deliberate decision to limit my photos.

The gardens are the conception of the current owner’s mother who spent 30 years developing them from a simple lawned layout to today’s stunning juxtaposition of clipped topiary and relaxed borders. Every corner brings something new, little archways and garden doors through to different areas of the gardens. Even on a dull January day, there was a huge amount to feast the senses: snowdrops bursting through in every corner, hellebores in abundance - more varieties than you could dream of and shrubs with powerful winter scent that catch you before you’ve even stepped through the gate.

We had a lovely chat with one of a small army of highly valued local gardening volunteers who pointed out his favourite treasures and chatted about the family pride and passion for the gardens.

And when our feet got too cold, we retired to the delightful tea rooms for a delicious lunch sourced from local butchers (Jacksdale) and bakers (Luke Evans). Judge a place by its toilets? Ten out of ten there too!

Whoops - if every visitor makes such public declarations then it won’t be North Nottinghamshire’s best kept secret for much longer but then it certainly deserves to be more widely known.

My personal favourite though: the pair of gorgeous rescue dogs.

Final warning: if you’re a keen gardener make sure you car boot is empty! We filled ours, and for a snip of the price that you’d find elsewhere. The priory’s mantra: if you see a plant in the garden that you like, ask in the nursery. Everything in the gardens is labelled (apart from the birds!) - that in itself is a gardener’s joy!