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Interested in bird watching? If your answer is yes, and you are in the south Warwickshire area then Compton Verney could be worth a look. Although an art gallery with […]

Chapel Bank: Arranged a little tidy last week, and more is needed, but the Verbena bonariensis is still flowering beautifully so I’m loathed to do anything just yet. The plants […]

The stroll into work takes many forms, and staff and volunteers at Compton Verney are most definitely spoiled. Walking as our visitors do along the paths and drives that lead […]

AKA… getting a huge bit of tree through a small hole in the wall  On a sunny Friday in September, just before all the rest of the loans arrived for […]

I bring news of our final tree climbing day of the year at Compton Verney, in a tree overlooking the expansive west lawn and gallery building. Sunday October 4th will see the Big […]

At any given time we have activity that includes archaeology, architecture, construction, landscaping, restoration, interpretation and much more – it is all go I can tell you!

Latest image sent through from our bird recorder Alwyn, with a note saying there are good numbers of Long Tailed Tits around the lake at the moment, moving around with […]

Description of a bookable talk this Friday at Compton Verney, about the Arts and Crafts masterpiece Hidcote Manor Gardens, by Glyn Jones, Garden and Countryside Manager

I’m glad to report that a NADFAS team of Heritage Volunteers from the Stratford-Upon-Avon area have volunteered to help us research the development of the landscape and garden at Compton Verney.

A short and sweet update of birds recorded on camera at Compton Verney by volunteer Alwyn Knapton.

As promised, here’s an update on one or two developments within the programming department at Compton Verney. Last time, I said I would go in to a bit more detail […]

On Tuesday 21 July artist Rosa Nguyen visited Compton Verney to talk to members of the public and start off a family workshop in the studio space. In the morning […]

  The nature my role takes me in to the galleries perhaps more than any other member of the permanent staff at Compton Verney. I check all of the lighting […]

At one time or another, most everybody wonders of the sights our feathered friends enjoy. To be a bird flying high above tree covered hills and swooping low over lakes […]

A short article covering basic lessons learned on an Introduction to Scything workshop @ComptonVerney #CVGrounds

This weekend sees the return of organised tree climbing at Compton Verney. Despite a set-back last month when a bee swarm alighted on our favoured London Plane tree, we’re confident […]

In response to The Non-Conformists Photographs by Martin Parr exhibition, members of the public was invited to submit parresque images to twitter and facebook using #ParrWall. Each week the photographs […]

We have been extra busy bees at Compton Verney this last year, here’s our experience of improving a wild flower lawn/meadow.

Heron, great crested grebe, woodpecker & reed warbler @ComptonVerney – Who’d have thought?! #CVGrounds #30DaysWild