The Minchenden Oak Garden

This is a terrific place to think and get away from it all. It’s a beautiful, quiet, walled garden in the heart of suburbia. Anyone expecting it to be full of flowerbeds bursting with colour though, will be disappointed; it’s mainly bushes and trees.
The real attraction and focal point is the ancient pollarded oak tree. It’s more than 800 years old and thought to be a remnant of the ancient forest of Middlesex. In the19th century it was reputed to be the largest in England.
Access to the garden is down four shallow steps, but the paving surface is quite uneven and therefore not very wheelchair-​friendly.