Meeting venues

Painshill, Cobham, Surrey KT11 1JE

Great for: Weddings, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Team building, Exclusive use

• Up to 150 guests
• Civil ceremony licence
• Outdoor ceremony space
• Walled garden
• Marquee site
• Meeting rooms
• Catering
• Café
• Vineyard
• Lake
• Riverside
• Accessible toilets
• Parking

Grade I listed 18th-century landscape garden at Cobham, created by Charles Hamilton between 1738 and 1773 and run by an independent charity. It covers 160 acres. Couples marry between May and September in the Gothic Temple, for up to 120, or the Crystal Grotto, for 16. Dry-hire marquee receptions in the Walled Garden take 150, and meeting rooms hold up to 70.

Brighton Racecourse, Freshfield Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 9XZ

Great for: Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Christmas parties, Stag and hen

• Guest numbers: ask the venue
• Grandstand Hall
• Event suites
• Executive boxes
• Restaurant
• Private bars
• Terraces
• Outdoor event space
• In-house catering
• Free Wi-Fi
• Accessible facilities
• Free parking
• Sea views

A racecourse 400ft up on Whitehawk Hill, a mile from the Brighton coast. Flat racing runs April to October, and outside racedays its suites, Grandstand Hall and lawns host conferences, parties and hen and stag days.

Lainston House, Woodman Lane, Sparsholt, Winchester SO21 2LT

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Country house, Conference venue

• Up to 120 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Restaurant
• Bar
• Private dining
• Meeting rooms
• Gardens
• Terrace
• Cookery school
• Gym
• Tennis
• Fishing
• Parking

Late 17th-century red-brick house in 63 acres near Winchester, with 50 bedrooms, two restaurants and Season Cookery School. Weddings use the Dawley Barn or an outdoor Pavilion for 120, and meetings run across five rooms seating up to 166.

Queen Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 3HS

Great for: Weddings, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas parties, Hotel, Conference venue

• Up to 500 guests
• Food on site
• Bar
• Rooms to stay
• Restaurant
• Spa
• Meeting rooms
• Catering
• Dog friendly

One of Portsmouth's oldest hotels, founded in 1850 as the Sailors' Home and just 200m from the Historic Dockyard. A fully licensed venue for weddings, parties, reunions and conferences, with two superb function rooms and packages at competitive rates.

Oatlands Park Hotel, 146 Oatlands Drive, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 9HB

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas parties, Hotel, Exclusive use, Conference venue

• Up to 300 guests
• Civil ceremony licence
• Exclusive use
• Rooms to stay
• Restaurant
• Bar
• Meeting rooms
• AV equipment
• Wi-Fi
• Gardens
• Gym
• EV charging
• Parking

Weybridge hotel on the site of Henry VIII's Oatlands Palace, rebuilt after a fire in 1794 and a hotel since 1856. It has 157 bedrooms, 12 event rooms and 10 acres above Broadwater Lake. Weddings take up to 300 and exclusive use starts at £45,000, while the York Suite holds 420 for conferences.

Hotel du Vin, 2 Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AD

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Christmas parties, Team building, Hotel, Private Dining

• Up to 120 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Restaurant
• Bar
• Private dining
• Meeting rooms
• AV equipment
• Air-conditioning
• Wi-Fi
• Exclusive use

Boutique hotel in a cluster of Gothic and mock Tudor buildings in Brighton's Lanes, with 49 rooms, Bistro du Vin and six private rooms. The Dome seats 100 for a wedding banquet, intimate wedding packages cover 15 to 30 guests, and meetings take up to 90.

Plumpton Racecourse, Plumpton, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 3AL

Great for: Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Team building, Conference venue

• Up to 500 guests
• Horseracing
• Restaurant
• Bar
• Café
• Private boxes
• Marquee
• Meeting rooms
• AV equipment
• Wi-Fi
• Outdoor event space
• Accessible toilets
• Parking

National Hunt racecourse near Lewes, below the South Downs, racing since 1884. Away from racedays its 80 acres take conferences, parties and team days, with indoor rooms for up to 350 and the Final Fence Marquee for 500. Day delegate rates start at £40 plus VAT, and there are over 3,000 free parking spaces.

Royal Windsor Racecourse, Maidenhead Road, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 5JJ

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Christmas parties, Team building, Stag and hen, Riverside venue, Conference venue

• Up to 300 guests
• Parking
• Food on site
• Bar
• Horseracing

Royal Windsor Racecourse is a Thames-side racecourse near Windsor hosting weddings, parties and corporate events in its suites and riverside marquee.

Hartwell House, Oxford Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP17 8NR

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Hotel, Exclusive use, Private Dining, Country house, Conference venue

• Up to 150 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Civil ceremony licence
• Exclusive use
• Marquee
• Restaurant
• Private dining
• Meeting rooms
• Spa
• Swimming pool
• Gym
• Gardens
• Dog friendly

Jacobean and Georgian house in 90 acres near Aylesbury where Louis XVIII lived in exile, now a National Trust hotel with 48 bedrooms and a spa. Four rooms are licensed for weddings of up to 72, marquees take 150, and the Hartwell Rooms seat 90 for meetings.

Froyle Park, Ryebridge Lane, Upper Froyle, Alton, Hampshire GU34 4LA

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Team building, Exclusive use, Country house, Conference venue

• Up to 300 guests
• Exclusive use
• Civil ceremony licence
• Outdoor ceremony space
• Ballroom
• Rooms to stay
• Bridal preparation rooms
• Bar
• Gardens
• Terrace
• Sound system
• Air conditioning
• Meeting rooms

Grade II* Jacobean manor in Upper Froyle, ten minutes from Farnham, hired exclusively for weddings. A Grand Ballroom for 300, an outdoor Dome for 240 and 32 bedrooms sleeping 66, with dry hire through about 20 approved caterers or all-inclusive packages.

The Montagu Arms Hotel, Beaulieu, New Forest, Hampshire SO42 7ZL

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Christmas parties, Hotel, Exclusive use, Private Dining, Conference venue

• Up to 150 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Gardens
• Food on site
• Bar
• Restaurant
• Parking
• Exclusive use
• Dog friendly

A four-star country house hotel in the picture-postcard New Forest village of Beaulieu, a 16th-century coaching inn with over 300 years of stories. Three charming wedding spaces for up to 32, or exclusive use for up to 150.

Hartsfield Manor, Sandy Lane, Betchworth, Surrey RH3 7AA

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas parties, Team building, Hotel, Exclusive use, Private Dining, Country house

• Up to 120 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Restaurant
• Bar
• Gardens
• Meeting rooms
• AV equipment
• Air-conditioning
• Dance floor
• Gym
• Wi-Fi
• Parking
• Dog friendly

Victorian manor near Betchworth, finished in 1869 and used as a Canadian Army hospital in the Second World War. Weddings for 120 in a garden gazebo or the Hartsfield Lounge, a conference wing led by the 120-seat Hartsfield Hall, and 50 bedrooms across the manor, Annexe and old Lodge.

Donnington & Co., Old Oxford Road, Donnington, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 3AG

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Christmas parties, Team building, Hotel, Private Dining, Conference venue

• Up to 140 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Civil ceremony licence
• Meeting rooms
• Private bar
• Restaurant
• Bar
• Spa
• Indoor pool
• Gym
• Golf course
• Terrace
• Free parking

Privately owned hotel, spa and pay-and-play golf club in parkland just outside Newbury. Ceremonies are licensed in the Cromwell Suite and Greens, wedding breakfasts seat up to 140, eight meeting rooms take groups of up to 140, and there are 111 bedrooms.

Mercure Brighton Seafront Hotel, 149 Kings Road, Brighton BN1 2PP

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Christmas parties, Team building, Hotel, Conference venue

• Up to 150 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Restaurant
• Bar
• Terrace
• Civil ceremony licence
• Meeting rooms
• AV equipment
• Air-conditioning
• Room service
• Wi-Fi
• Parking
• Wheelchair access

Grade II listed 4-star hotel on Brighton seafront, built in 1864 and opposite the Bandstand, with a Regency-style stucco front and original mirrors and chandeliers. The Ballroom seats 120 for a wedding breakfast and 150 in the evening, the Coast View Suite takes 60 for ceremonies, and five meeting rooms take up to 110 theatre-style.

Cottesmore Hotel, Golf & Country Club, Buchan Hill, Pease Pottage, Crawley, West Sussex RH11 9AT

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas parties, Hotel

• Up to 200 guests
• Challis Suite, Buchan Suite and Barn Roo
• Outdoor ceremony lawn
• French-style courtyard with fountain
• Private bar with late licence
• Disabled access and lift
• 26 en-suite hotel rooms
• 7 self-catering lodges
• Health club and swimming pool
• Beauty salon
• Phoenix Bar & Restaurant
• Two golf courses
• Lake

Family-owned golf and country club at Pease Pottage near Crawley, rebuilt after a 2018 fire. Three function rooms for 150 at a wedding breakfast and 200 in the evening, licensed ceremonies indoors or on a lawn, 26 bedrooms, seven lodges and a health club.

Northbrook Park, Crondall Road, Farnham GU10 5EU

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Exclusive use, Country house, Conference venue

• Up to 250 guests
• Exclusive use
• Civil ceremony licence
• Outdoor ceremony space
• Rooms to stay
• Self-catering
• Bridal suite
• Bar
• Walled garden
• Lake
• Meeting rooms
• Wi-Fi
• Parking

Grade II listed 18th-century manor house on a 120-acre estate near Farnham, on the Hampshire and Surrey border, hired exclusively for weddings of up to 250. Ceremonies in the Vine Room, Orangery or Walled Gardens, specialist Asian and Afro-Caribbean weddings, boardrooms for 24 and ten Mews cottages sleeping 80.

Cogges Manor Farm, Church Lane, Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 3LA

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations

• Up to 250 guests
• Civil ceremony licence
• Dry hire
• Walled garden
• Walled courtyard
• Orchard
• Café
• Farm animals
• Fire pits
• Mobile heaters
• Evening security
• Free parking
• Accessible parking

A 1,000-year-old farmstead in Witney with a 13th-century Manor House and two licensed 18th-century barns, used as Yew Tree Farm in Downton Abbey. The Wheat Barn seats 200, both barns are dry hire, and the whole 17-acre site is the couple's from 5pm.

Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2EH

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Christmas parties, Team building, Hotel, Conference venue

• Up to 120 guests
• Auditorium
• Meeting rooms
• Lecture theatre
• AV equipment
• Hybrid meeting kit
• Garden
• Restaurant
• Bar
• Bedrooms
• Holiday house
• Wi-Fi
• Limited parking

A hotel and conference centre inside the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, run by the cathedral itself. The Clagett Auditorium seats 120 for dinner or 190 theatre-style, drinks move to the Campanile Garden, and hotel guests get free cathedral entry.

Hurley House, Henley Road, Hurley, Berkshire SL6 5LH

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Christmas parties, Hotel, Exclusive use, Private Dining, Conference venue

• Up to 250 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Civil ceremony licence
• Exclusive use
• Private dining
• Bar
• Meeting rooms
• Terrace
• AV equipment
• Air-conditioning
• Wi-Fi
• Parking
• EV charging

Former Red Lyon pub near Henley and Marlow, reopened in 2016 as a ten-bedroom boutique hotel and named Best Small and Exclusive Property in the UK three times. Weddings and events use the glass-fronted Garden Pavilion, which seats 160 and holds 250 standing.

Farnham Castle, Castle Street, Farnham, Surrey GU9 0AG

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas parties, Conference venue

• Up to 350 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Civil ceremony licence
• Chapel
• Outdoor ceremony space
• Great hall
• Gardens
• Meeting rooms
• In-house catering
• Bar
• Bridal preparation rooms
• Marquee space
• Secure parking

Medieval palace of the Bishops of Winchester above Farnham, on the Surrey and Hampshire border, with a keep over 900 years old. Four licensed rooms and two chapels hold ceremonies, the Great Hall seats 230 for dinner and 350 for dancing, and 33 bedrooms are on site.