Its 17 miles (27 km) of marked paths are popular with visitors, and provide access to a wide variety of rare plants.

The Old Arboretum is a carefully designed landscape offering beautiful vistas, stately avenues, and a host of rare and exotic trees from across the globe dating back to the 1850s.

Silk Wood is a very different experience: although it also contains many exotic plantings, at its heart is a traditional working woodland, dating back to the 13th century.

[5] Westonbirt Arboretum is in Gloucestershire on the A433 approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Tetbury, at Ordnance Survey grid reference ST 848898.

From the end of November and throughout December, an evening illuminated trail runs throughout the Old Arboretum, highlighting the beauty of Westonbirt's trees in winter.