RHS Garden Bridgewater


RHS Garden Bridgewater will be the Royal Horticultural Society's fifth public display garden. It is being created at Worsley in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, and will open in 2020.

Gardens

Bridgewater is being created in 156 acres of the former Worsley New Hall estate with the Bridgewater Canal forming the southern boundary. It will be the RHS's first new garden since it acquired Harlow Carr in 2001, and is one of Europe's largest gardening projects.
Landscape Architect Tom Stuart-Smith has created the overall masterplan, in which the walled kitchen garden will be restored, historic features such as the tree-lined Garden Approach recreated, and the lost terraces reworked. Marcus Chilton-Jones has been appointed the first curator of the garden.

Funding

The expected total cost of the project is £32.7m of which the RHS has invested £15.7m of its own funds and so far received a further £12.7m through grants and fundraising, including a £5m grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation.