From expansive wild reserves to enchanting classic architecture, our editors have visited, reviewed, and curated a stunning selection of wedding venues scattered across the entirety of England, suited for guest lists of all sizes. Renowned for their beautiful settings, incredible menu options, and stellar teams dedicated to bringing couples’ visions to life, these are The Wedding Edition’s top venues to add to your shortlist for celebrations in 2025 and beyond.
Deer Park Country House
By Isabella Foulger, Co-Founder & Editor
Built with a retreat ethos at its core, Deer Park in Devon has a mantra of eat, sleep, party repeat. It’s all about giving couples the freedom to use their imaginations and choreograph something truly magical and memorable for their guests. The key thing to remember here is that there really are no limits – Deer Park becomes your house for the duration of your stay with guaranteed privacy. A dedicated Wedding Coordinator will be on hand throughout the wedding journey to bring couples’ visions to life and help curate each element.
Food lovers will relish the estate-to-plate ethos, with fiercely seasonal and imaginative plates and canapés. What’s more, there’s also a huge emphasis on the outdoors with many options for al fresco events or country pursuits, and a heavenly treehouse. Each wedding here is bespoke, a one off party and sensory experience without the limits and restrictions of venues near residential areas. Deer Park ultimately turns weddings into a piece of art with endless possibilities, little touches and surprises throughout.
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Cornwell Manor
By Rosalyn Wikeley, Travel Editor
Deep in the bucolic thickets of North Oxfordshire, Cornwell Manor casts its wisteria-smothered Georgian symmetry over acres of landscaped gardens and its very own hamlet, including a Norman church. As the Cotswolds switch on the sunshine and the Laurel-carved gardens glow an ethereal green, there is a sense that you have found the prettiest patch of England: undulating countryside, woodland and lakes serving as a soft, watercolour backdrop for the couple’s vision and all the photographs. Inside lies a series of grand sweeping rooms, all dressed in silks, botanical wallpaper and antiques.
A wood panelled dining room nods to the house’s Jacobean history, while opulent fireplaces and pretty Georgian windows lend it its photogenic edge. Guests can’t help but sigh wistfully at the pleasing symmetry of the gardens and main, magnificent manor house – both the perfect expression of rural English romance. One of Cornwell’s winning cards for weekend weddings is its heated pool, surrounded by manicured topiary (and typically a smattering of wide-eyed friends and family ready to cool off in the twinkling water having debriefed on the wedding highlights from the previous day). There’s no rush either – check out generously stretches on until 5pm on the Sunday, so there’s ample time for a game of croquet.
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Dewsall Court
By Isabella Foulger, Co-Founder & Editor
Dewsall Court is the ideal setting for a deliciously down-to-earth celebration, stretching over two-to-three days. The design-led team will ensure it’s a show-stopping wedding with endless charm from the moment you arrive. The venue is an elevated (and Grade II listed) home-from-home, filled with cosy nooks, log fires, and 17th-century quirks. It is an archetypal country house that sits against the backdrop of the Black Mountains, with 12 acres of gardens and grounds surrounded by the Duchy of Cornwall’s pocket of Herefordshire countryside and views as far as the eye can see. But there is no austere pretension here. Dewsall Court has long been a buzzing family home and is now run by a mother-and-daughter duo who have, for 14 years, taken care of every detail to create standout weddings with some of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful setups we’ve seen.
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The Walled Garden at Cowdray
By Isabella Foulger, Co-Founder & Editor
For an enchanting walled garden wedding in the heart of the South Downs National Park, where citrusy, herby notes waft under guests’ noses. The Walled Garden at Cowdray is a historic setting that provides a stately backdrop for celebrating your nuptials, along with opulent rooms and a scatter of cottages to house the bridal party and more.
Standing adjacent to the dramatic Cowdray Ruins, The Walled Garden possesses a whimsical, England of yore quality – perfect for those quintessentially English nuptials. A true Alice In Wonderland spectacle, as you enter this Tudor Walled Garden via the original, heavy oak door. Inside, the working walled garden is bursting with life and the scent of citrus, mint and rosemary hangs in the air. Located within the sprawling Cowdray Estate – a fine example of West Sussex heritage with its flint buildings and estate yellow doors – a wedding in The Walled Garden will always impress.
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Wilderness Reserve
By Isabella Foulger, Co-Founder & Editor
To host the ultimate pile-them-all-in wedding (the sort you presumed you could only achieve with a sprawling Tuscan estate) in one of the UK’s most exclusive wedding venues. Here, in this bucolic stretch of Suffolk, you can keep all your nearest and dearest (and the rest) on site, hunkering down in the chicest accommodation spread across a manor house, barn conversions, Suffolk pink farmhouses, cottages and lodges.
Wilderness Reserve may sound like an African safari park, and it’s quite frankly not far from it, with 8000 wild acres spread across two estates (and a hotly anticipated third one opening in 2025). The entire wedding party can stay for a number of nights an exclusive-hire basis and guests can be treated to Michelin-starred menus, country pursuits galore and, if they so wish, a helicopter charter to whisk them in and out of the knock-out nuptials.
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The Goodwood Estate
By Rosalyn Wikeley, Travel Editor
For a quintessentially English wedding in a grand, genteel setting, and with the fairy dust that only somewhere as versed in events as Goodwood can sprinkle. The wedding planning team here is as professional as they come, with a butler and chef at the couples’ disposal and no notion or vision too fantastical to contemplate, particularly with Goodwood’s Festival of Speed, Qatar Goodwood Festival and Goodwood Revival under their smart leather belts.
Aside from this refined event muscle and the sheer stately splendour of it all, the joy of a wedding here is in the multiple reception or ceremony location choices, along with the chance to keep the wedding party and close guests on-site (11,000 acres of it) across a long weekend. Combine the evocative countryside, different styles of wedding venues and Goodwood’s ‘nothing’s impossible’ approach to bringing events to life, and it’s easy to see why this majestic corner of West Sussex appeals to discerning couples. Whatever they opt for, they’re in safe hands, and in one of England’s most ravishing country piles.
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Four Seasons Hampshire
By Kendra Leaver-Rylah, Co-Founder & Editor
Set in 500 acres of beautiful countryside, the Four Seasons Hampshire is the grand English country stay couples dream of. Set against a show-stopping backdrop of enchanting gardens and rolling hills, the Georgian beauty is a stone’s throw from London with charming staff, a top-notch spa and an endless list of country pursuits to enjoy. Four Seasons Hampshire is the perfect home-from-home haute-luxe estate that’s family-friendly, dog-friendly and country chic for honeymooners, wedding planners or, and quite spectacularly, weddings.
A mere one hour drive from Central London, Four Seasons Hampshire is a sprawling country estate ramped up with Four Seasons panache. Inside, glamour meets traditional country house, with mirrored walls, chandeliers and comforting country wallpaper. Outside, guests are greeted by life-size sculptures of boxing hares, wild boar and an incredibly friendly Labrador. Couples will adore this wedding venue’s little romantic extras, such as a rehearsal dinner for two under the stars.
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Pennsylvania Castle, Dorset
By Georgina Elliott, Contributing Editor
The Penn is a neo-Gothic estate so epic, it inspired one of the great literary love stories: Thomas Hardy’s The Well Beloved. Set against the rugged UNESCO-heritage Dorset coast, The Penn estate sits dramatically on the cliffs atop crashing waves. The romance of Pennsylvania Castle is of the old world—light, airy, and effortlessly elegant. The Penn has recently expanded to include newly developed luxury modern residences, The Clifftops, that increase the accommodation offering to 40 guests.
Although the estate is steeped in great history, The Penn’s events team makes sure that the personalities of the couple in question remain front and centre of all operations. There is charm, thoughtful accommodation, and champagne top-ups at every step, ensuring the most seamless and joyous of wedding weekends.
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Wasing Park, Berkshire
By Georgina Elliott, Contributing Editor
Wasing Park is a centuries-old farming hamlet that has been carefully converted into an incomparable storybook wedding venue. There is magic in every corner of the verdant 4,000-acre Wasing Estate, one of the most diverse rural estates in England, and Wasing Park is its stunning crowning jewel.
Wasing can be exclusively enjoyed by the wedding party, who will find a unique space to celebrate and connect, from an unforgettable welcome evening—think acoustic musicians serenading guests in the moonlight—to the final ‘Estate to Plate’ wedding breakfast. And with a peerless offering of activities—from forest bathing to Haka classes—Wasing is best experienced over an action-packed two-or three-day wedding.
There are hundreds of years of character and stories built into the fabric of the buildings, from saying your vows in the postcard-pretty 15th-century Parish Church of St. Nicholas to resting your head at the end of the day in the enchanting old Granary. Wasing uniquely fuses continuity (and a commitment to sustainability) with luxury; and modern polish brings the space bang-up to date. Wasing’s elevated rustic feel makes it an ideal sanctuary to take over with loved ones and celebrate in style.
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