National Trust - Calke Abbey

One of our favourite local national trust locations. we regularly go, especially in summer to see the gardens and meadows. you can easily spend a day exploring here, there are formal gardens, orchards, fruit/vegetable gardens, meadows with games etc in the summer for children. there's also fields and woods with lots of walks and deer, as well as a small lake with another circular walk. in terms of facilities there's a couple of cafes, shop, toilets and book shop near the ample car parking. lots of places for picnics as well.

Fabulous national trust. lots of friendly knowledgeable volunteers. beautiful grounds & gardens. fabulous walks for all abilities. lovely cafe & digs made welcome on a short lead. the autumn decorations were a fun touch. well done team, sterling work 👍

Lovely for a walk in the sun. was super busy when we visited this afternoon, so there were queues for the toilets and long queues for the cafe, so would probably avoid coming at the weekend in future and stick to weekdays. however, beautiful scenery and a good walk, regardless. the gardens are beautiful and the dahlias are absolutely stunning!

One of my favourite national trust properties to visit is situated in extensive grounds the house is in decline but very interesting rooms to look around with stables and underground tunnels which are quite spooky. the surrounding grounds have walled gardens which are a pleasure to walk around and a beautiful church on the hill . if you go through the dark tunnel from the walled gardens it takes you down to the lake . there are plenty of walks to do. loved the way they dressed up the tunnels for halloween.

Really nice place. nice parkland and deer. large lake but small walk. the house ground floor as the rest wasn't open was ok. garden and ice house was great. the tunnel was ace. the lights supposed to be on in december so it may get better there than.