THE BEST PUMPKIN PATCHES NEAR LONDON

BM
Sep 9
4 min read

Updated: Sep 10

Our 2025 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 of more than one million pumpkins, and 100 acres with more than 30 spooky backdrops to pout in front of, plus roaming characters in gorgeous costumes - none of your nylon, Smiffys clobber here - 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. 20 September - 31 October

Hatter’s Farm Pumpkins

As well as thousands of pumpkins in 75 varieties and wonderfully creative backdrops, this dog-friendly patch is home to the famous pumpkin CANNONS.

Fire your gourds across the patch into a creepy target, enjoy marshmallow toasting, roaming characters, a Maize Maze, haunted house, Bale Mountain, Farm Play Area, food and drinks.

Or book into Pumpkin Nights, where the spooky dial is turned up, with creepy actors lurking about

.Hatter’s Farm, Takeley, Bishop’s Stortford, CM22 6NP. £4.29pp. 11-31 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. 4-31 October

Hobbledown Heath Pumpkin Patch

Whimsical kid’s mecca, Hobbledown Heath launched its first pumpkin experience last October and this year's is set to be even more gourd-geous.

Expect pumpkins galore, seasonal games, marshmallow toasting and Instagram-worthy photos in magical autumnal worlds.

Hobbledown Heath, Staines Road, Hounslow, TW14 0HH. Select dates from 26 September - 2 November. From £6pp - ticket doesn't include Hobbledown Heath entry

Secretts Pumpkin Week

Among a gaggle of pumpkins in eye-watering varieties - from the classic Harvest Moon to ghost, goosebump and Big Moose - this beautiful patch is brimming with gourd photo opps, entertainment and food.

Their BBQ and pumpkin-themed menu includes sausages, hearty pumpkin soup, pumpkin curry, and their famous pumpkin cake.

Kids (and big kids) can also enjoy entertainment like biscuit decorating, glitter face painting, jumping on mini pedal tractors, riding the vintage carousel, and the make-your-own waffle station.

Secretts, Hurst Farm, Chapel Lane, Milford, Surrey,GU8 5HU. 18-30 October. £6.40pp. Under 2s go free

Marsh Farm Pumpkin Village

With a gaggle of gourds and spooky treats, plus Dog Nights and SEN-friendly sessions, this Essex patch offers a premium pumpkin picking experience.

There'a also fang-tastic food, pretty pumpkin pic opps, and an excellent Halloween shop.

Marsh Farm Pumpkin Village, Marsh Farm Rd, Chelmsford CM3 5WP

Bockett’s Farm

Head to Witches and Wizards Week at this inventive farm, and meet creepy crawlies at the Reptile Road 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. 25 October - 2 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

Crockford Bridge Farm

This year's Willy Wonka themed Pumpkin Festival invites you to join a ctors, dancers, and entertainers on a magical journey through Wonka Land. Children will take part in helping to uncover the missing ingredients for Wonka’s brand-new chocolate bar, bringing the tale to life in an unforgettable way.

Expect a dazzling mix of theatre, circus, fairground games, fairground rides, interactive activities, and pumpkins galore — all set within beautiful, imaginative surroundings. Crockford Bridge Farm, New Haw Road, Weybridge, KT15 2BU. 4-31 October

Foxes Farm Pumpkin Patch

This gorgeous, Colchester gourd mecca celebrates its tenth anniversary this October, with thousands of PYO pumpkins and squash directly from the field.

They grow so many pumpkins that they even supply other patches.

Kids can also whizz along in their hamster wheels, climb the bale mountain, sack racing and the pumpkin jump pad.

Enjoy hot chocs, burgers and sausages from their local farm, as well as drinks like mulled cider and pumpkin beer, a pumpkin corn trail and photo opps with Old American Truck, Fergie Tractor, Bale Sofas, and love seat.

Foxes Farm Pumpkin Patch, Foxes Farm Produce, Halstead Rd, Colchester CO6 3PT. 4-31 October