Ashdown Park Hotel & Country Club sits proudly within 186 acres of the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, home of the famous Pooh Bear. Ashdown Park Hotel and Country Club offers the heights of luxury in the heart of East Sussex.

Country house hotels in Sussex don’t come more luxurious, or offer such a magnificent combination of elegance, style, award winning dining and outstanding wedding facilities.

The architecture, the grounds, the service and of course the stained glass windows and vaulted ceilings of the sympathetically converted chapel all conspire to make Ashdown Park one of the most romantic wedding or civil partnership venues in Sussex.

The neo-Gothic splendour of the Grade II listed mansion house, a choice of period rooms, beautifully landscaped grounds, and a lovingly maintained secret garden, all come as part of your dream wedding.



Whether you’re celebrating a small intimate wedding or civil partnership in a private room, a larger gathering in one of our banqueting suites, or a spectacular affair with a wedding banquet for 150 guests, at Ashdown Park you’ll find the perfect Sussex wedding venue.

The Richard Towneley Suite is a converted chapel with a vaulted ceiling and is lit beautifully by stained glass windows. Designed by Harry Clarke, it fills the interior in rainbow shades of coloured light, which creates a magical setting that the bride and groom will remember forever.

The licensed Summer House, which stands in a quiet part of the lawn overlooking the lake, offers an altogether different kind of experience which is more informal and relaxed but no less romantic.

Couples are spoilt for choice when it comes to beautiful settings for photographs. Seek out our beautiful Secret Garden, or a shady spot overlooking the lake, backlit by dappled sunshine streaming through the trees of the East Sussex countryside.