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The most accessible entrance has a slight ramp/slope and an open entrance with no doors.
This entrance is to the side of the walled garden.
The following are also available: seating and on site-transport.
This site is part of the Sunflower Lanyard Scheme.
The nearest toilet with adaptations for disabled people is within the walled garden area. View information about this toilet (new tab)
Additional toilet facilities with adaptations for disabled people are next to the Stables Coffee Shop. View information about this toilet (new tab).

You can borrow or hire the following equipment: manual wheelchairs. It is highly recommended that these are booked in advance, where this is possible. Please check the National Trust website for details.
You can borrow these from visitor reception. View more information about booking and collection of equipment.
Powered mobility vehicles cannot be borrowed or hired.

From visitor reception, take the pathway over the River Test and then turn right onto a gravel pathway.
Follow this pathway until there is a turning to the right which will take you to the walled garden. The picnic area is then on the right.
The route to the area is step-free via a slight ramp/slope.
Path surfaces along the route are concrete, gravel, muddy and wood.
The majority of the paths are wide enough for wheelchair users.
There is an accessible shuttle which can take visitors to this area.

The following information describes the picnic area located to the side of the walled garden.
There is step-free level access into the area.
Access into the area is via slight ramps/slopes.
The slope is over 150cm wide, with no handrails.
There are picnic tables.
No chairs have armrests on both sides.
Adapted picnic tables are not available.
The distance between the floor and the underside of the lowest picnic table is 69cm.
The distance between the floor and the underside of the highest picnic table is 69cm.
The standard height for the underside of picnic tables is 73cm.
The following furniture is permanently fixed: all of the chairs and all of the tables.
There is step-free level access around some of the area.
The surface in the picnic area is not smooth and even.
Where the flooring is not smooth or even, this is due to grass.