Wedding venues

Clayton Farm, Church Lane, Peasmarsh, Rye, East Sussex TN31 6XS

Great for: Weddings, Exclusive use, Barn venue

• Up to 200 guests
• Civil ceremony licence
• Exclusive use
• Dry hire
• Commercial kitchen
• Bar
• Dance floor
• Fire pit
• Crèche room
• On-site accommodation
• Glamping
• Accessible toilets
• Parking

A restored 17th-century oak-framed barn on a 400-acre working farm near Rye, in the High Weald. It is hired dry and exclusively for 48 hours, seats 200 and has three licensed ceremony spots: the barn, an orchard gazebo and a meadow.

Swallows Oast, Gibbs Reed Farm, Pashley Road, Ticehurst, East Sussex TN5 7HE

Great for: Weddings, Celebrations

• Up to 130 guests
• Civil ceremony licence
• Outdoor ceremonies
• Licensed bar
• In-house catering
• Bridal suite
• Marquee
• Lake
• Courtyard
• Children's play area
• Parking
• Wifi
• Helicopter landing

An 1830s twin-kiln oast house at Gibbs Reed Farm near Ticehurst, converted into a banqueting hall in 1995. It seats 130 under an oak-beamed ceiling with a minstrels' gallery, holds civil ceremonies inside and under the Pavilion, and has a woodland bridal suite with a slipper bath.

Chesil House, 4 Chesil Street, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 0HU

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Exclusive use, Riverside venue, Conference venue

• Up to 100 guests
• Chesil Suite
• Garden Room over the tributary
• River View Room
• Riverside deck
• Walled garden with bridge
• Lounge breakout area
• Built-in audio-visual equipment
• Ceremony live-streaming
• Air conditioning
• Free WiFi
• Bridal preparation room
• In-house caterers

Nineteenth-century house on the River Itchen in central Winchester, owned by the Steel family for four generations. Hired exclusively for weddings and ceremonies of 20 to 100 guests and for meetings and conferences, with a riverside deck and walled garden.

Fontwell Park Racecourse, Arundel Road, Fontwell, Arundel BN18 0SY

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

• Up to 700 guests
• Horseracing
• Civil ceremony licence
• Marquee
• Restaurant
• Private suites
• Bar
• Gardens
• Viewing balcony
• Wi-Fi
• Free parking

Jumps racecourse in 65 acres between Arundel and Chichester, with the UK's only figure-of-eight steeplechase. Weddings in Fontwell House for 80 by day and 120 in the evening, the Premier Suite for 300, and multicultural weddings for up to 700 with a marquee.

Selden Barns, Old Selden Farm, 146 Selden Lane, Patching, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UL

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

• Up to 200 guests
• Exclusive use
• Civil ceremony licence
• Outdoor ceremonies
• Licensed bar
• Walled garden
• Rooms to stay
• Bridal suite
• AV equipment
• Wi-Fi
• Free parking
• EV charging
• Wheelchair accessible

Family-owned, exclusive-use flint and brick barns in the South Downs National Park between Worthing and Arundel, with three licensed ceremony spaces for up to 100 indoors and 200 outdoors, a fairy-lit main barn with a Victorian mahogany bar, walled gardens, on-site cottage bedrooms and space for weddings, corporate events and parties.

Combe Manor, Combe, Hungerford, Berkshire RG17 9EJ

Great for: Weddings, Barn venue, Party venue

• Up to 170 guests
• Civil ceremony licence
• Exclusive use
• Dry hire
• No corkage
• Catering kitchen
• Stage
• Dance floor
• Bridal suite
• Parking
• Accessible toilet
• Gardens
• Theatrical lighting

Two restored 19th-century barns beside a 1669 manor house in Combe, at the southern tip of West Berkshire. The Russell family offer six days of exclusive dry hire per wedding for £5,950 with no VAT or corkage. The barns also host parties, balls and talks.

Mapledurham House, The Estate Office, Mapledurham, Reading RG4 7TR

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Country house, Riverside venue

• Up to 200 guests
• Gardens
• Bar
• Civil ceremony licence
• Tipi
• Marquee
• Riverside
• Moorings
• Meeting rooms
• Exclusive use
• House tours
• Outdoor event space

Family estate beside the Thames near Reading, owned by Richard Blount's descendants since 1490, with the last working watermill on the river. Weddings use licensed outdoor ceremony spaces and a permanent oak-framed tipi for 160 seated and 200 in the evening. The Grade I listed Old Manor takes meetings of 15 to 20.

Christine House, London Road, Rainham, Gillingham, Kent ME8 8PT

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

• Up to 450 guests
• Beulah Suite
• Rhema Suite
• Citrine Suite
• Beulah Lounge with bar
• Reception Area
• Bridal suite
• Professional kitchen
• In-house catering
• Cocktail service
• Civil ceremony licence
• On-site parking
• Overflow parking

Event venue on London Road, Rainham, with its own civil ceremony licence. Two suites join into the Beulah Suite for 450 seated, and an in-house kitchen cooks multicultural menus for weddings, conferences and parties.

Bilsington Priory Estate, Priory Road, Bilsington, Ashford, Kent TN25 7AU

Great for: Weddings, Exclusive use

• Up to 200 guests
• Priory Room ceremony space
• Chequerboard garden gazebo
• Tree marquee with bar
• Tack Room dressing room
• In-house catering
• In-house DJ and disco lighting
• Nine-acre grounds
• Disabled access
• Free on-site parking
• Catering kitchen for dry hire
• Spaces for prayer
• Cloakroom

Medieval priory founded in 1253, looking out over Romney Marsh near Ashford. Exclusive-use weddings with ceremonies for 100, receptions for 140 and evening parties of 200, in-house catering and DJ, a tree marquee and a micro-wedding package for 11 to 30.

Newbury Road, Headley RG19 8LA

Great for: Weddings, Celebrations

• Up to 150 guests
• Bar
• Parking
• Food on site
• Café

The Darling Buds of May location, set in the idyllic Kent countryside, offers a charming and nostalgic setting for intimate corporate events and private celebrations, surrounded by the peaceful beauty of traditional English farmland.

Broadlands Park, Romsey SO51 9ZD

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Celebrations, Country house, Riverside venue

• Up to 500 guests
• Event parkland
• Orangery
• Civil ceremonies
• Concert site
• Helicopter landing
• Wi-Fi fibre
• Filming locations
• River fishing
• Walled gardens
• Woodland
• Parking
• Rail access

The Mountbatten family's estate at Romsey, with 4.5km of the River Test and a 135-acre parkland that has staged concerts by Elton John and Lionel Richie. It hosts civil and celebrant-led ceremonies, corporate events and filming.

Nurstead Court, Nurstead Church Lane, Meopham, Gravesend, Kent DA13 9AD

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Country house

• Up to 200 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Bar
• In-house catering
• Gardens
• Marquee
• Dance floor
• Exclusive use
• Outdoor ceremonies
• Private dining
• Sound and lighting
• Wi-Fi
• Parking

Grade I listed manor house near Gravesend, built in 1320 and home to the Edmeades family for 400 years, in 300 acres of Kent farmland. It is always hired exclusively. Ceremonies take 75 in the Drawing Room, and the garden marquee seats 120 for dinner and 200 in the evening. Ten guests can stay in Stable Cottage and three shepherd's huts.

Avington, Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1DB

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Team building, Private Dining, Country house, Riverside venue

• Up to 180 guests
• Civil ceremony licence
• Exclusive use
• Rooms to stay
• Lakeside barn
• Orangery
• Rose garden
• Trout fishery
• Estate pub
• Hot tubs
• Wild swimming
• Free parking
• Wi-Fi

A family-owned estate of 300 acres in the Itchen Valley near Winchester, where Charles II once lived with Nell Gwynn. Weddings for up to 180 use the Orangery and Library, with ceremonies in the rose garden or by the river. Lakeside Otters Barn hosts smaller weddings, Christmas parties and company days.

Hampden House, Hampden Road, Great Hampden, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire HP16 9RD

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

• Up to 100 guests
• Exclusive use
• Civil ceremony licence
• Estate church
• Gardens
• Terrace
• Bridal suite
• Bar
• Wi-Fi
• Parking

Grade I listed Chiltern house shaped over 650 years by the Hampden family, 40 minutes from London. Weddings take exclusive use of the house, with four licensed ceremony spaces and a 14th-century church on the estate. Packages start at £22,500, and the house also hosts corporate, charity and private events.

The Warnham Barn, Rookwood, Robin Hood Lane, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 3RR

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Christmas parties, Team building, Barn venue

• Up to 100 guests
• Oak-beamed function barn
• Fully licensed bar
• Mezzanine meeting room
• Private veranda
• Terrace
• Dance floor
• Pitch and putt course
• FootGolf
• Complimentary wifi
• In-house catering
• Free car park

Restored 17th-century Sussex barn at Rookwood golf course, walking distance from Horsham town centre. Seats 80 for a wedding breakfast and 100 for an evening party, with a licensed bar, a mezzanine meeting room and pitch and putt on the doorstep.

Hoad Farm, Acrise, Folkestone, Kent CT18 8LP

Great for: Weddings, Exclusive use, Barn venue, Party venue

• Guest numbers: ask the venue
• Civil ceremony licence
• Exclusive use
• On-site accommodation
• Kitchen for caterers
• Bar facilities
• Music system
• BBQ area
• Accessible toilets
• Pet friendly
• Parking

A family-run barn wedding venue at Acrise, near Folkestone, where three-day packages include set-up and pack-down days. Couples choose from three licensed ceremony spots, and three holiday cottages on site sleep 12. Winter weddings for up to 50 start at £2,750.

The Old Dairy, Hatherden Farm, Hatherden Lane, Hatherden, Andover, Hampshire SP11 0HT

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Celebrations, Barn venue

• Up to 140 guests
• Main barn for 140 seated
• Glass mezzanine
• Audio system with wireless microphones
• Bar area
• Commercial kitchen
• Paved patio
• Male, female and disabled toilets
• Bridal party bedroom
• Self-catering cottages
• On-site parking

Converted dairy barn on a family farm outside Andover, seating 140 under oak beams and a giant milk-bottle chandelier. Three days' hire for £6,000, a commercial kitchen, and self-catering cottages and loft rooms a few steps from the barn.

Nether Winchendon House, Nether Winchendon, near Thame, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP18 0DY

Great for: Weddings, Celebrations, Exclusive use, Barn venue, Country house

• Up to 250 guests
• Exclusive use
• Gardens
• Rooms to stay
• Bar
• Dance floor
• Marquee
• Barn

Grade I listed Medieval and Tudor manor near Thame, in the same family since 1559 and remodelled in the Strawberry Hill Gothick style in the late 18th century. Exclusive-use weddings in the 18th-century Carriage Barn (85 dining, 120 evening) or marquees for up to 250 on three lawns, with church or garden ceremonies.

Brickwall House, Northiam, Rye, East Sussex TN31 6NL

Great for: Weddings, Exclusive use, Country house

• Up to 70 guests
• Exclusive use
• Civil ceremony licence
• Drawing Room with grand piano
• Great Parlour Room
• Walled garden
• Topiary chess garden
• Arboretum
• Get-ready room
• No corkage fee
• On-site venue manager
• Parking
• Outdoor pool

A Grade I listed Jacobean manor at Northiam, on the East Sussex and Kent border, used for small exclusive-use weddings of up to 70 day guests. It has three licensed ceremony spaces and a walled garden with yew topiary chess pieces.

Horsham Lane, Ewhurst, Surrey GU6 7SW

Great for: Weddings, Private Dining, Barn venue, Party venue

• Up to 120 guests
• Stage
• Dance floor
• Bar
• No corkage
• Bridal preparation room
• Wi-Fi
• PA system
• Free parking
• On-site security
• Outdoor seating
• Tipi

An ancient oak barn and a Victorian Foster & Pearson glasshouse on a 30-acre Surrey estate near Ewhurst, restored by owners Lucinda and Sam Watkinson. The barn seats 120 for weddings and parties with no corkage, and the glasshouse seats 24 for private dinners.