The Valley Gardens

This is a very nice and colourful garden next to Harrogate city centre. There's a venue hall, playground, cafe, toilets, an area for musicians to play

This is an English Heritage grade II listed garden. it's got a stream running through it fed by lots of mineral springs. they immaculately maintained. there is a children's playground which appeared to be great from the reactions of the kids in there. the cafe is part indoors, part under veranders and part out in front. It was expensive. I was amazed to see children throwing their ice-creams away because they weren't very nice!!
There is a band-stand where a band plays on Sunday afternoons through the summer

The Valley Gardens in Harrogate are beautiful, English Heritage Grade II listed gardens.


The lush and well stocked gardens are around a large number of the mineral springs for which Harrogate is reknown.


In summertime, Sunday afternoons are a brief image and sound of a bygone English era - band concerts under the Sun Pavilion, families strolling and picnicking. The gardens are well-stocked and year-round, a visit here is good fun, occasionally with just a few squirrels or dog walkers sharing the park.


My kids love it here - the playground is entertaining, there are often very lovingly crafted boats on the boating lake and enough of interest elsewhere in the gardens to keep them occupied, from hide and seek to watching the world go by.


Would have voted this 5 out of 5 but sadly the garden's cafe has lost my vote since it changed from being a cheerful, busy, excellent value, family run place with queues out of the door to a much more expensive version, the opposite of everything that the former business was.


Not to end on a negative, the park is a place for any resident of Harrogate to be proud of and for any visitor to enjoy.