THE BEST PUMPKIN PATCHES NEAR LONDON
Our 2024 Pick of the Ultimate Pumpkin Experiences
Pumpkin patches come in three categories - the gourd, the bad, and the ugly.
Since you often need to trek further afield for many of them, it’s important to know the experience will be the right kind of fright.
Fear not, we have scoured the pumpkin patches for the juiciest pumpkins and the best experiences to dial up your Hygge and fill your photo reel with wholesome, sprog/dog and squash content. Our best pumpkin patches are all near London, so dust off your wellies, grab a wheelbarrow and dive in.
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Tulleys Pumpkins
Tulleys Farm owns Halloween. It’s an immaculately presented experience, with beautiful displays, an enormous patch and more than 30 spooky backdrops to pout in front of, plus roaming characters in gorgeous costumes - none of your nylon, Smiffys clobber here - more than a million pumpkins, a pumpkin bar, pumpkin house, street food, hot chocolates and a graveyard. And if you want to dial up the fright, you can attend their “pumpkin nights” and go picking after dark. Tulleys also hosts Shocktober Fest, one of the UK’s biggest Halloween events, with 10 scare attractions, rides, horror mazes and creepy circuses - although, this one is definitely not for sprogs.
Tulleys Pumpkin Farm, Unit 5, Turners Hill, Crawley RH10 4PD. 28 September - 31 October
Cammas Hall Pumpkin Patch
These guys don’t mess about when it comes to gourds. And this year, they will unveil their biggest and most ambitious patch yet, complete with Spooky Tunnels, Halloween Characters to interact with and a giant, erupting PUMPCANO!
There will also be more than 50 varieties of pumpkin, interactions with their Halloween characters, Wicked Walkways brimming with photo opps and their Halloween themed Maize Maze. There will also be quieter, SEN sessions - with the animatronic props turned off - plus children’s play area, food and lovely farm shop. And during half term, they will be running their kid-friendly, Monster Mayhem show twice a day.
Cammas Hall, Needham Green, Hatfield Broad Oak, Hertfordshire, CM22 7JT. From 5 October
Hobbledown Heath’s NEW Pumpkin Picking Experience
Whimsical kid’s mecca, Hobbledown Heath launches its first pumpkin experience this month, for spooky photos and gourd-grabbing, followed by fun in its four themed villages with West London's ultimate adventure playground and zoo.
Hobbledown Heath, Staines Road, Hounslow, TW14 0HH. Thurs-Sun from 27 September - 3 November. Off peak £17. Peak £23. Under 2s go free
Bockett’s Farm
Head to Witches and Wizards Week at this inventive farm, and meet creepy crawlies at Tom’s Talking Reptile Show, plus science and slime shows, a Pumpkin Village brimming with photo opps, enjoy a Creepy Craft Corner, hop on the tractor and trailer ride to meet fluffy animals, have a pony ride and end the day with a Monster Mash bubble disco. Oh, and also pick some pumpkins.
Bockett’s Farm, Young St, Fetcham, Leatherhead KT22 9BS. 26 October - 3 November
Priory Farm, Surrey
If it’s good enough for Dame Judi Dench, it’s good enough for us. This pretty farm invites you to board a tractor to their pumpkin patch or join Fern, Timber and Pebble on the Halloween trail to solve a mystery caused by the Mud Monsters. There’s also a Hay Bale Maze, the impressive House of Pumpkins, a giant, pumpkin rainbow for kids to climb, a gaggle of spooky family games, photo opportunities and a barrow load of pumpkins.
Priory Farm, Sandy Lane, South Nutfield, Redhill, RH1 4EJ. From 4 October
Hatter’s Farm Pumpkins
This pretty, family-run farm features thousands of pumpkins, Hatter’s Fun House (a spooky, clown-themed walkway) Pumpkin Cannons, Maize Maze and Pumpkin Picking Lates, where the spooky dial is turned up, with creepy actors lurking about.
Hatter’s Farm, Takeley, Bishop’s Stortford, CM22 6NP
Crockford Bridge Farm
This year's Wizard of Oz themed Pumpkin Festival invites you to travel along the yellow brick road, through an Emerald City maze, for theatre, fairground rides, street food, pumpkin carving and decorating, and gaggles of beautifully arranged gourds. Crockford Bridge Farm, New Haw Road, Weybridge, KT15 2BU
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