Aberglasney Gardens

Aberglasney's gardens have been recorded since at least 1477, when a Welsh-language poem describes nine green gardens on the site in the Tywi valley at Llangathen. The Aberglasney Restoration Trust, a registered charity formed in 1994, took on the semi-derelict mansion and grounds and opened them to the public on 4 July 1999, after a five-year restoration overseen by William Wilkins CBE. The centrepiece is the Elizabethan Cloister Garden, bounded by a three-sided stone parapet walkway that is the only surviving structure of its kind in Britain, alongside a yew tunnel planted in the eighteenth century and more than twenty distinct garden areas. A café and plant sales area operate from the same single Llangathen site, which has no other locations.