VISITOR PARKING

Visitors to the physic garden will be prepared for a short (200 footstep) walk to the garden entrance gate. This is a very pleasant walk along a riverside lane, which is also a public footpath.

Please note:

  • Be prepared for a muddy lane when it’s wet!
  • Follow the lane by the river, after 100 steps the path turns to the right and inclines between 2 houses.
  • The physic garden entrance gate is on the right at the top of the incline.

WORKSHOP, EVENT OR FOUNDATION COURSE PARKING

PLEASE PARK IN OUR TOP-UP CAR PARK IF YOU ARE COMING TO A WORKSHOP, EVENT OR THE FOUNDATION IN PLANT MEDICINE:

Our visitor car park is small –  if coming to a workshop, course or event please only park in our Top-up Car Park (shared with Dilston Scout Camp).

Please allow a pleasant 5-10 minute walk from the Top-up Car Park to the entrance gate.

Directions for Dilston Top-up Car Park : 

  • From the East/ Corbridge on the A695, find the grass-field car park situated  200yds towards Hexham from the Dyvel’s Water bridge/ Physic Garden visitor car park.  The turning is left at the top of the hill. On entering the lane turn left through the gate into the field; please do not drive down the scout camp lane, which is private.
  • From the West / Hexham on the A695, find the grass-field car park situated  200yds before the Dyvel’s Water bridge/ Physic Garden visitor car park.  The turning is on the right at the top of the only hill coming from Hexham. On entering the lane turn left through the gate into the field; please do not drive down the scout camp lane, which is private.
  • Enjoy the 500yds (5-10minutes) walk down the lane, turning left onto the public footpath at the cottage & after 250yds you’ll come to the Physic Garden entrance gate on the left.
  • Please open the Top-up Car Park if first in and close if last out.

CLOSER OR WHEELCHAIR ACCESS ?

For those not able to walk the lane, cars can drive up to the entrance gate – returning the car back to the car park (or if not possible to return the car, parking well past the entrance on the left if no other cars are parked – leaving ample space for cars to turn in the entrance).

There are seats at intervals placed around the physic garden.

Access is not yet suitable for wheelchairs, though, wheelchairs are possible if the weather is dry. However, it must be said that although the main Physic Garden is all at one level the ground is grass, and does have narrow gravel paths round some beds that make wheelchair access challenging.