Pick Your Own Pumpkins at Doddington Hall

Pick Your Own Pumpkins is part of the autumn programme at Doddington Hall near Lincoln. You enter by the Gatehouse in front of the Elizabethan Hall and follow a spooky walk through the Kitchen Garden to the patch, where there are thirty varieties of pumpkin, squash and gourd.

What to expect:

• Open daily through October 2026, 10am – 4pm, until Saturday 31 October
• “Free entry, pay for what you pick. Prices start from £4 dependent on size. Cash and card payments accepted.”
• “Wellies are essential as it can get muddy. Halloween fancy dress is, of course, encouraged.”
• Golden-bottomed pumpkins are hidden in the patch all month; find one and you win the pumpkin, a family ticket to Christmas in the Hall and a homegrown tree
• Guess the weight of Donald, a giant pumpkin on show in the Farm Shop, to win Christmas in the Hall tickets
• “Dogs are not permitted in the Pumpkin Patch but are welcome on leads through the Kitchen Garden”
• Farm Shop and cafés on the same site