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Are we your Partner Garden of the Year?

We’re taking part in The RHS Partner Garden of the Year competition where The Royal Horticultural Society is searching for the nation’s best-loved RHS Partner Garden. This is the second year of the competition, which recognises how important exercise and a connection to nature are for mental health. The theme is ‘Feel Good’, so if visiting our garden (or [...]

2022-11-21T13:17:27+00:0022/03/2022|

Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library

We are delighted to have begun a new partnership with Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library (HSL), with the aim of reviving, conserving and protecting a selection of heritage and heirloom vegetable seed varieties, some of which have historical origins in Shropshire. The heritage varieties which are being trialled here at Goldstone Hall Hotel in our one acre kitchen garden [...]

2022-11-21T13:21:26+00:0027/01/2022|

Award Winners

We are delighted to have been named as a winner of the prestigious 2022 Good Hotel Guide’s Editor’s Choice Award for Gardens. The recent 45th edition of the 2022 Good Hotel Guide is the U.K.’s leading accommodation guide with independent advice and reviews of luxury and boutique hotels, B&Bs and Inns. The Editor’s Choice Awards highlight the top 10 [...]

2022-11-21T13:23:05+00:0008/10/2021|

National Garden Scheme (NGS) – Date Change

National Garden Scheme - update Due to a private event booking, we are no longer open for the NGS open days scheme on Wednesday 15th September 2021. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. However, we do continue to support the National Garden Scheme and will be publishing our 2022 dates via the website soon. Goldstone Gardens 2021 [...]

2022-11-21T13:26:28+00:0010/09/2021|

The Wonder of Herbs 2021

We are celebrated for our award winning five acre garden, including over one acre productive kitchen garden, which is set within the beautiful and sensory herbal walkways. Join us in September (Wednesday 8th) when owner, John Cushing, and guest medical herbalist, Bee McGovern, will guide a morning walk and talk around the kitchen garden.  John, who co-founded the hotel and [...]

2022-11-21T13:27:54+00:0020/04/2021|

The Wonder of Herbs

GOLDSTONE EVENT We are celebrated for our award winning five acre garden, including over one acre productive kitchen garden, which is set within the beautiful and sensory herbal walkways. Join owner John Cushing and guest medical herbalist Bee McGovern for a morning walk and talk around the kitchen garden.  John, who co-founded the hotel and restaurant, is the driving [...]

2022-11-21T13:30:22+00:0010/03/2020|

Mothering Weekend

Let’s Hear it for the Mothers! We are hosting a special four course Sunday lunch on 22nd March, and Afternoon Tea experience on Saturday 21st March 2020, in celebration of Mothering Weekend. Our family run, award winning rural hotel and gardens is focused on delivering innovative and tasty food made to exceptional standards, much of which is sourced from [...]

2020-03-05T09:15:13+00:0005/03/2020|

Romantic Getaway for Food Lovers this Valentine’s

Surprise your special someone with a thoroughly indulgent and romantic long weekend, including a sumptuous 8 Course St Valentines’ Day tasting menu designed by our head chef Liam Philbin. Shropshire Countryside Overlooking the gorgeous North Shropshire countryside, Goldstone Hall Hotel and Gardens boast one of the largest and most productive hotel kitchen gardens in the U.K., underpinning the delivery [...]

2022-11-21T13:33:31+00:0023/01/2020|

Wedding Pricing and Quotes

What do these fixed price wedding midweek package deals involve that you see wedding venues offer?  We saw one for 40 guests the other day for £6,000 so I worked Goldstone’s pricing out for the same, and we were £200 less and that was for a summer date at the weekend.  I then thought about a Goldstone wedding and [...]

2022-11-21T13:34:47+00:0007/01/2020|

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