The Bawdsey Manor Estate, with spectacular views over the River Deben Estuary, has 150 acres of registered Historic Parkland, formal gardens and surrounding Maritime Environment of cliffs, woodland, heath, marsh, beaches and river frontage. 

The formal gardens, which lie to the south and west of The Manor House, were laid out in the 1895 by Lady Quilter and are currently being restored to the original scheme.  The South Terraces have an elaborate central stairway and Jacobean-style Gazebo designed by the architect William Eade.  As in the past, herbaceous borders are a riot of colour throught the year. The Secret Garden, protected from the Suffolk winds but open to the sound and smell of the sea, lies in the footprint of Martello Tower V surrounded by Pulhamite rockeries, grottoes and tunnels, one of which leads on to the Italian Garden with lily pond and rose pergola the perfect place for sculpture.  A noble stone gateway, also by William Eade, frames the entrance to the Walled Garden with the exquisite neo-classical Lemonry beyond.

For some years the 4 acre walled Victorian Kitchen Garden has again been providing fruit, vegetables, salad and flowers for the Estate and the local community.  It has been registered Organic but at present we are gardening according to organic priniples while improving the sandy soil.  The Lemonry, in which the remains of the central heating and louvreing for the windows is still visible, now needs complete restoration.  In the main house there is still some original double glazing as well as central and under-floor heating, testament to the technical skill of the original builders of the estate.

Below the house and formal gardens is The Pulhamite Cliff Walk, a 110 metre long artificial cliff engineered by the Pulham factory from sand, shale and cement backed by brick, perhaps from the demolished Martello Tower.  This stunning rockery has a central path, grottoes, planting beds, seats, stone waterfalls and many other unusual features.  At 10 metres high in places it's the biggest sculpture in Suffolk.

Overlooking the River Jordan, the RAF Memorial Grove commemorates members of the Armed Forces who served at Bawdsey when it was a military base, first during the development of RADAR and later as a missile base and research station.