Updated for the 2026 season.
There’s a point every October when a supermarket pumpkin no longer cuts it in our house, and we end up in a muddy Surrey field debating which lopsided orange one comes home. It’s become our marker for the start of autumn: wellies on, cold hands, a wheelbarrow the boys fight over.
The good news is Surrey has some of the best pumpkin patches near London. Six are worth your time. Crockford Bridge Farm in Addlestone, Garsons in Esher, Priory Farm near Redhill, Secretts in Milford, Bocketts Farm near Leatherhead and Mayfield Lavender in Epsom. They range from working fields where you pick straight from the crop to big decorated pumpkin villages, they’re all entry by pre-booked ticket now, and they all get busy over half term. There’s also one just over the border in West Sussex, Tulleys Farm, that plenty of Surrey families make the trip for, us included. Here’s what each one is actually like, with 2026 dates, prices and the practical bits worth knowing before you go..
The best pumpkin patches in Surrey at a glance
- Best for a straightforward field pick Crockford Bridge Farm, Addlestone (fields open 3-18 October 2026)
- Biggest patch Garsons, Esher (Pumpkin Parade across October)
- Best for a full day out Priory Farm, near Redhill (pumpkin field, tractor ride and Halloween trail)
- Best for photos and food Secretts, Milford (Pumpkin Week, 17-30 October 2026)
- Best for animal-loving little ones Bocketts Farm, near Leatherhead (farm park plus a Pumpkin Village)
- Most magical Mayfield Lavender, Epsom (pick your pumpkin among the lavender on an Alice in Wonderland trail)
- Biggest of all Tulleys Farm, near Crawley (Europe’s largest pumpkin festival, just over the Sussex border)
- Book ahead every farm here needs a ticket in advance, none sell on the gate
- Pumpkins cost extra entry almost never includes the pumpkin itself
- Timing go early October for the widest choice, or half term for the full Halloween show
- Bring wellies, strong bags and a trolley if you have one
Crockford Bridge Farm, Addlestone
This is one of our favourites, and it’s the closest big patch for anyone coming from south west London. Crockford Bridge is a working farm and a specialist grower, so the fields are stacked with thousands of homegrown pumpkins in every shape and size, from tiny munchkins to hefty Atlantic Giants and pale, ghostly white ones.
Field picking runs 3-18 October 2026, closed Mondays. Entry is timed and you book online in advance, there are no tickets on the door. The fields shut mid-month to protect the crop from ground frost, so this is the one to do early in the season.
Entry is from £6.50 per person plus a booking fee, and the pumpkins are charged separately at the exit. Parking is free in the farm’s field car park, not the neighbouring garden centre, which is a separate business. At weekends there are street food vans on site, with The Dough Shack and Up in Smoke BBQ back again.
A few house rules catch people out. No dogs in the fields (it’s a working farm under Environmental Health rules, though dogs on leads are fine in the seating area), no buggies in the fields, and you’ll need to bring your own bags as they don’t hand out carriers.
Running alongside the picking is the farm’s Wonderland Pumpkin Festival, 24-31 October 2026, an immersive Alice in Wonderland theatrical trail that ends in a Mad Hatter’s tea party. Tickets are £14 plus booking fee, or £12 early bird, in timed two-hour sessions, and this one has a proper carving area, fairground rides and face painting. If you just want a pre-picked pumpkin without the field, the Pumpkin Boutique is open 20-31 October and needs no booking.
Insider tip go in the first week for the best selection and smaller crowds. Late October is lovely but it’s the busiest stretch and sessions sell out.
New Haw Road, Addlestone, near Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2BU
Garsons, Esher
Garsons is the big one, one of the largest pick-your-own farms in the country at more than 150 acres, and Surrey’s biggest pumpkin grower with tens of thousands of them each year. The main crop is the deep orange Racer variety, with white Ghost pumpkins in the mix too.
Its autumn event, the Pumpkin Parade, runs across October, with 2026 booking already open (in 2025 it ran the full month, so check their site for the exact 2026 dates). You drive out to the fields, follow the trail to a covered tunnel of pumpkins, and there are picnic tables and a fire pit for toasting marshmallows.
You book a timed pumpkin pass online in advance. As a guide, 2025 passes were around £6 per person for adults and children aged 2 and over, dropping to £5 each for families or groups of four or more, with under-2s free. Worth confirming the 2026 price when you book, and note the pass and the pumpkins are charged separately.
Afterwards the farm shop is worth a wander, especially in autumn, with a big display of pumpkins and gourds and an unusual line in American groceries.
Insider tip it’s a huge site, so wear shoes you don’t mind getting muddy and grab a wheelbarrow at the entrance before you head out.
Winterdown Road, West End, Esher, Surrey KT10 8LS
Priory Farm, near Redhill
Priory Farm is the one to pick if you want to make a day of it. Pumpkin picking has been a tradition here for forty years, and they grow more than 10,000 pumpkins on the estate, but the draw is everything around it.
You can drive to the field yourself, or take the tractor and trailer ride out to it, which the kids love. There’s a hay bale maze with a slide hidden inside, a House of Pumpkins, and photo spots dotted about. Alongside sits the Halloween trail at Discovery Land, a walk through 40 acres of woodland, meadows and lakes.
Tickets are booked in advance on select dates from early October, and there’s a combined ticket that bundles the pumpkin field, the tractor ride and the Halloween trail. That combined option is the best value if you’ve got children in tow. As with the others, entry doesn’t cover the pumpkins themselves, which are priced separately.
Insider tip book the combined ticket and take the tractor out rather than driving, it’s half the fun for younger ones.
Sandy Lane, South Nutfield, Redhill, Surrey RH1 4EJ
Secretts, Milford
Secretts near Godalming runs its long-standing Pumpkin Week from 17-30 October 2026, and it’s less a bare field and more a decorated experience, with photo scenes threaded through the patch. You’ll find every kind of pumpkin here, from perfectly round to gnarled and warty, white to fierce orange.
The food is part of the appeal, with pumpkin soup, curry and cake, a BBQ and even mini golf to round off the visit. Entry is low, historically £2 to £3.50 per person, and doesn’t include your pumpkin. Booking is by timed slot with a maximum of six per group.
There’s a separate car park for Pumpkin Week at the Chapel Lane entrance with limited spaces, so check availability before you set off. The award-winning farm shop, with its enormous cheese counter, is a good excuse to linger.
Insider tip it’s a decorated, family-friendly set-up rather than a rustic working field, which makes it a safe bet for a first pumpkin trip or for older kids who like the photos. We love it here!
Hurst Farm, Chapel Lane, Milford, Godalming, Surrey GU8 5HU
Bocketts Farm, near Leatherhead
We’ve been visiting Bocketts for years, it’s close to home and a reliable hit with younger children. It’s a farm park first and a pumpkin patch second, so you come for the animals, the indoor and outdoor play barns and the tractor rides, with a Pumpkin Village folded into its autumn events.
There are two to choose from in 2026. Little Pumpkins Week runs 17-23 October, a gentler mid-week build-up with a spooky stamp trail, Halloween crafts and discos. Then Wizards and Witches Week takes over half term, 24 October to 1 November, with science and slime shows, a reptile roadshow and a creepy craft corner.
Advance booking is essential and entry is farm-park priced, so it costs more than a straight field pick, with event-day tickets in the low twenties per person and pumpkins on top. That said, you’re paying for a whole day of animals, play and shows, not just a pumpkin.
Insider tip this is the pick for toddlers and pre-schoolers who’d lose interest in a plain field. Confirm the 2026 event prices when you book, as they vary by date.
Young Street, Fetcham, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 9BS
Mayfield Lavender, Epsom
This is the most unusual patch on the list, and the prettiest. Mayfield’s Secret Lavender Garden in Epsom turns its lavender rows over to pumpkins each autumn for Malice Returns: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, running 10-31 October 2026, an Alice in Wonderland themed adventure.
You start in the pumpkin patch, picking your gourd from among the lavender, then follow the White Rabbit through a trail of themed scenes, a Mad Hatter’s maze, a ghost train and a string of photo stops. There are daytime slots and, new for this run, atmospheric evening sessions once the light drops.
The ticket covers garden entry, the pumpkin patch and the trail, with pumpkins charged separately. Arrival is by timed slot and booking ahead is recommended, partly because parking is prioritised for pre-bookings. Prices weren’t confirmed for 2026 at the time of writing, so check the current rate when you book.
Insider tip go for the photos as much as the pumpkins, the lavender-and-orange combination is unlike anywhere else near London. The Glasshouse Cafe next door is a good stop afterwards – try their cheese scones, they’re so good!
Mayfield’s Secret Lavender Garden, 139 Reigate Road, Epsom, Surrey KT17 3DW
Tulleys Farm, near Crawley (just over the Sussex border)
This one’s technically West Sussex, not Surrey, but it’s close enough that plenty of Surrey families make the trip, us included, every year. Tulleys runs what it calls Europe’s largest pumpkin festival, and the scale really is the point, with more than 100 acres, well over a million pumpkins and gourds, and around a hundred varieties.
The daytime Pumpkin Festival runs on selected dates from 19 September to 1 November 2026, 9:30am to 5:30pm, finishing with fireworks. Alongside the pick-your-own field there’s a pumpkin village with street food and shopping, roaming performers, more than 30 built photo spots and, new for 2026, a Pumpkin Valley area and a 33-metre observation wheel over the fields.
Daytime entry starts at £8.95 and climbs with demand, and the pumpkins are priced separately by size, from about £1 to £25, measured at the exit. The entry isn’t knocked off your pumpkin bill, so budget for both. Parking is free on site.
After dark, Pumpkin Nights runs on selected evenings from 26 September to 31 October, 5:30pm to 10pm, where you pick pumpkins under strung lights with live music, a pumpkin bar and street food. Tickets start around £11.95. One thing worth knowing, the neighbouring Shocktober scare mazes are a separate, much scarier ticket, not part of the family pumpkin event.
Insider tip weekend and half-term slots sell out weeks ahead, so book early. And unlike most of the Surrey farms, dogs are welcome every day here, with a dedicated Pooches and Pumpkins day if you want to bring yours.
Tulleys Farm, Turners Hill Road, Turners Hill, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 4PE
When’s the best time to go pumpkin picking in Surrey
The Surrey season runs through October, roughly from the first weekend to Halloween. Early October gives you the widest choice, the freshest fields and better odds on the weather, and it’s noticeably quieter.
Half term, in the last week of October, is when the full Halloween show kicks in, with trails, festivals and events, but it’s also the busiest stretch and slots sell out. Bear in mind Crockford Bridge closes its fields on 18 October to protect the crop, while its festival and the other farms run right up to the 31st.
Whenever you go, weekday mornings are the calmest and weekends the most crowded.
What to bring and how to make the most of it
Book ahead. Every farm here is pre-booked with timed entry, and none sell tickets at the gate. Weekends and half term go first, so grab a slot as soon as you know your date.
Go early, in the month and in the day. The pick is best at the start of October and the fields are quietest first thing.
Wear wellies and clothes you don’t mind ruining. These are real fields and they don’t close for rain, nor do they refund for it, so dress for mud.
Take your own bags or a trolley. Most farms don’t provide carriers and the wheelbarrows run out fast at busy times.
Bring a card or cash for extras. Entry rarely includes the pumpkin, and you’ll want a bit spare for food, rides and the farm shop.
Check the dog and buggy rules. Most fields are no dogs and no buggies, with Priory Farm and the Crockford Bridge festival being the exceptions.
And a small one that saves tears later, carve as late as you can. An uncut pumpkin stored somewhere cool and dark will keep for weeks, but once it’s carved it starts to go within days.
Pumpkin picking near London
All six of these farms double as pumpkin picking near London, which is why they fill up. Crockford Bridge and Garsons are the easiest for south west London, both around an hour’s drive or a short train and bus hop. Bocketts near Leatherhead and Mayfield Lavender in Epsom are quick from the M25, while Priory Farm and Secretts sit a little further south but are still comfortably a day trip from the city.
Pumpkin picking in Surrey FAQs
How much does pumpkin picking cost in Surrey?
For a straight field pick, entry runs from around £2 to £7 per person plus a booking fee, with the pumpkins charged on top, usually a few pounds each by size. The event-led days out cost more. Priory Farm’s combined ticket bundles the tractor ride and trail, and Bocketts is farm-park priced at around £20 or more per person because you get a full day of animals, play and shows with it.
Do you need to book pumpkin picking in advance?
Yes. Every major Surrey farm now runs on pre-booked, timed entry and doesn’t sell tickets at the gate. Half term and weekend slots sell out, so book early.
When does pumpkin picking start and finish?
The season runs through October. Most farms open in the first week and go on to Halloween, though Crockford Bridge closes its picking fields on 18 October to protect the crop, selling pre-picked pumpkins after that.
Which Surrey farm is best with young children?
Bocketts Farm, for the animals, play barns and shows, and Priory Farm for the tractor ride and hay bale maze. Secretts and Mayfield Lavender both suit little ones too, with decorated, easy-going trails rather than open fields.
Can you bring dogs pumpkin picking?
Mostly no. The picking fields are working farmland and dogs aren’t allowed in them, though some sites welcome dogs on leads in the seating and shop areas. Check each farm’s rules before you travel.
Is parking free?
Parking is free at Crockford Bridge if you use the farm field car park rather than the garden centre. It varies elsewhere, and at Secretts the Pumpkin Week car park is separate with limited spaces, so check ahead.