Latest News – The Tea Room

The Ashwood Gardening Club met for the last time on Friday March 3rd after running for 22 years. The Gardening Club first met in 1995 and was established by Howard Drury (gardening journalist and lecturer) and Tony Cartwright (manager of Ashwood Nurseries). The club met for a Winter Lecture Series on the first Friday of […]

The Tea Room at Ashwood, still basking in the glow of its first Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor, has scooped yet another award. The Finest Tea Rooms Award has been bestowed upon us by This England magazine in recognition of our ‘warm welcome, excellent service’ and for ‘upholding the typically English tradition of afternoon tea’. […]

We are thrilled to announce that The Tea Room at Ashwood has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor. The Certificate of Excellence award is given to outstanding hospitality businesses that have received praise and recognition in reviews by TripAdvisor travellers. Winners of the award range from one-room bed & breakfasts to 6000-room hotels, […]

The Tea Room is celebrating 25 years of opening. It opened its doors to visitors on March 25th 1990 to coincide with Mother’s Day weekend and has never looked back. The nursery and garden centre had been thriving since the 1960’s but there were only basic facilities for visitors. Our customers had been telling us […]

We are very proud that once again our Tea Room has been awarded a top rating of Five Stars from the ratemyplace food safety inspectorate, with special praise given for its ‘high standards which are well above average’. Congratulations must go to manager Ruth Cartwright and her team who work so tirelessly (both behind the […]