Greenhill Gardens in Weymouth

Beautiful, award-winning gardens with magnificent views across Weymouth Bay

At the edge of the town centre, sloping up from the beach and promenade, are Greenhill Gardens, where you can get some of the best views across Weymouth Bay. The winding paths and brightly coloured flower beds of the Gardens are a true delight to discover but there is also an 18-hole putting green, tennis courts, a bowling green and two cafes to keep you occupied.

Weymouth's Greenhill Gardens has been recognised as one of the best green spaces in the country. The seafront gardens have been awarded Green Flag status based on how safe, clean, accessible, well managed and welcoming they are. The Green Flag Award scheme is the national standard for parks and green spaces across England and Wales; it recognises the value of green spaces in communities and is held by the best parks and gardens in the UK.

One of the unique features of Greenhill Gardens is its floral clock, which was built in 1936 by Ritchie & Sons of Edinburgh. It has an adjacent clock house that holds the original mechanism that keeps the clock ticking. There is also Bennett's Shelter, which was a benevolent donation made by Mayor V H Bennett. The original shelter, which was constructed after 1919, had lower wooden sections that have since been replaced by Portland stone walls. The upper timber structure and tiled roof are essentially in their original form and the structure continues to provide shelter to today's visitors. The Schneider Trophy weather vane is a memorial to a former Weymouth College student, Lieutenant George Stainforth, who set a world record air speed in a Schneider Supermarine S6B seaplane in 1931. The weather vane has been in Greenhill Gardens since May 1952 and was restored in 1999 by a local marine engineer. In the late 1980s, a 'wishing well' was donated to the Gardens by Melcombe Regis Rotary Club. To this day, any money thrown into the well is collected and presented to a local charity.