It was raining when we visited York a few weeks back to look around Goddard’s house and garden. Goddard’s is a grade I listed arts and crafts house in York, now owned by the National Trust, which acquired the house in 1984. However, it wasn’t opened to the public until 2012. It was built in 1927 for the Terry family of
the famed chocolate manufacturing family, Terry’s.
The garden spans 4 acres and includes a tennis court and croquet lawn. Beyond the gardens, you can see York racecourse. As it was pouring down when we were there, we were the only ones out in the garden, so we got the whole place to ourselves. My favourite part was the rock garden in the pictures below.
