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Lowther Castle - for over fifty years an abandoned ruin - is rapidly becoming one of the Lake District's most popular visitor attractions.
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🏰 Fascinating Castle Ruin 🖼️ Permanent Exhibition 🛝 Huge Castle Adventure Playground 🏯 Japanese Garden 🌹 Rose Garden 🪨 Rock Garden 🌸 Sweet Scented Garden 🍰 Cumbrian Homemade Food 🛍️ Quality Gift Shop 🐾 Dogs Welcome Gardens, historical exhibition telling 'The Story of Lowther', café, shop and the castle itself, sited in a stunning landscape. The gardens hark back to the 17th century and visitors can enjoy wandering through the remnants of an Edwardian pleasure park, meandering through stunning woodland, or stumbling across areas planted this century by the man-of-the-moment, landscape architect Dan Pearson. In the woods, one of the UK's largest adventure playgrounds 'the lost castle'. All in all, a treat for visitors of all ages.

26/10/2026

25/10/2026

⚠️ WE ARE CLOSED TODAY - SUNDAY ⚠️

Due to the storm we have had to make the decision to close the gardens today to keep our visitors safe. The café remains open all day. Sorry for the inconvenience, we hope to re-open as normal tomorrow.

21/10/2026

🌾 Heroes of the tapestry 🌾

As we continue to celebrate autumn with a closer look at our tapestry garden, we wanted to take a look at the perennials that bring structure, interest and a golden glow as the season marches on.

Calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’
Grasses don’t tend to get the attention they deserve, but Karl Foerester is a stalwart of the tapestry that brings vertical flashes of gold to the garden on the greyest of Cumbrian days. Incredibly resilient and perfectly framed against the dark green evergreen yew hedges, it also provides a welcome home for overwintering invertebrates.

Cephalaria gigantea (Giant scabious)
Awash with beautiful, primrose yellow nodding flowers in May and June, this perennial continues to deliver throughout the autumn. Dark silhouettes of faded flower heads float in front of golden grasses to provide height, interest and structure well into the colder months. A real favourite of the Lowther gardening team!

20/10/2026

✨✨Congratulations to our giveaway winners Anne Whittaker Chloe Delves Becky Satterthwaite and Channon Hitchen please DM us to claim your prize! Facebook won’t let us message you all at the same time! Thank you ✨✨

16/10/2026

We are delighted to announce that Lowther Farming Partnership Ecology Team has won the Ecology Team or Company Award at the 2026 Pro Landscaper Sustainability & Biodiversity Awards!

This prestigious national recognition celebrates the team’s outstanding commitment to biodiversity management across the Lowther Estate. Their achievements demonstrate the remarkable impact of landscape-scale nature recovery, including the planting of trees, restoration of river, reconnection of floodplain and creation of wetland habitat. Most notably, their evidence-led approach has contributed to adrastic increase in breeding bird territories at Setterah Park, alongside significant increases in butterfly populations and the successful reintroduction of water voles into restored wetland habitats.

Through innovative conservation practices, long-term ecological monitoring and collaboration with organisations including Natural England, the RSPB and Cumbria Connect, the team continues to demonstrate how productive land management and nature recovery can work hand in hand.

This award is a fantastic achievement and a testament to the team’s dedication, expertise and passion for delivering meaningful, measurable environmental improvements. A huge congratulations to everyone involved!

16/10/2026

Sharing on behalf of Lowther Endowed School and Little VIPs Day Care Could you be their next School Governor?

11/10/2026

✨🎄Lights of Lowther Giveaway 🎄✨
NOW CLOSED

We’re giving away 2 family tickets & 2 pairs of tickets to our Winter light trail ‘Lights of Lowther’ to be used on a Friday or Sunday evening. There will be 4 lucky winners on Facebook & 4 on Instagram too.

To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is

✨ Like this post
✨ Make sure you’re following Lowther Castle & Gardens on Facebook
✨ Tag a friend who would love to win too (Tag up to 10 accounts)
✨ Share to stories for 5 more entries

This giveaway is only open to UK residents only.

Winner to be announced on Sunday 18th October. Good luck! 🍀

T&C’s - This competition is now affiliated with Meta. No cash alternative. Tickets can’t be sold, they must be used by the person who wins. Dates run between 14th November and 30th December. A full list can be found on our website Lowthercastle.org Please select a Friday or Sunday night.

Address

Lowther
Penrith
CA102HH

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+441931712192

Website

http://www.lowthercastle.org/, https://lowthercastle.org/celebration-of-nature/

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