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Taylors Barns — Wimbish, Essex

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Taylors Barns

★★★★☆ 4 / 5 · 8 Google reviews · Wimbish

🏪 Multi-unit site 🌿 Garden centre on site 🥩 Butcher ☕ Café 🅿️ Parking on site

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📍 Taylors Barns, Water Lane, Howlett End, Saffron Walden CB10 2XA

🕐 Opening Hours

Monday	9:00 – 17:00
Tuesday	9:00 – 17:00
Wednesday	9:00 – 17:00
Thursday	9:00 – 17:00
Friday	9:00 – 17:00
Saturday	9:00 – 17:00
Sunday	10:00 – 16:00

⚠️ Taylors Barns is a multi-unit site, and each business on it keeps its own hours. The times above are indicative only. Check with the individual business you are visiting.
Hours may vary on bank holidays — always verify before visiting.

🌿 What’s Here

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Saffron Walden Garden Centre
The garden centre occupies Unit 11 and is listed separately in this directory — it is the main horticultural draw on the site.

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Butcher
A butcher operates from the site and is well spoken of by garden centre customers.

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Café
A café on site.

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Other units
A converted barn site with several independent units, each trading on its own hours.

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Parking
Parking on site for the whole complex.

⭐ What Visitors Say

Why there is no theme breakdown on this page

This business has 8 public Google reviews — too few to summarise fairly.

On larger listings we break down the themes visitors mention most, with the relative weight of each. Doing that here would give a handful of opinions the appearance of a pattern, and we would rather leave the section out than manufacture one.

Everything else on this page — address, contact details, opening hours, facilities and location — has been checked in the same way as every other listing in this directory. A small review count is not a reflection on the business. Small independents are often simply less reviewed than the chains.

📍 Getting Here

🚆 By Rail
Audley End is the nearest station on the West Anglia line, a short drive away.

🚌 By Bus
Limited rural services on the Saffron Walden to Thaxted corridor.

🚗 By Car
At Taylors Barns on Water Lane, Howlett End, north-east of Saffron Walden.

🚲 By Bike
Quiet lanes around Howlett End and Wimbish.

Coordinates: 51.987496, 0.289344 · Open in Google Maps ↗

🗺 Nearby Garden Centres

Other garden centres from our Essex listings. Distances are straight-line estimates; drive times will be longer.

Garden Centre	Area	Distance	Rating	Reviews	Notable For
Springwell Nursery	Saffron Walden	~8 km NW	4.3 ★	186	Bedding and tools
Chapel End Nursery	Broxted	~10 km S	4.7 ★	86	Plants not giftware
Langthorns Plantery	Little Canfield	~14 km S	4.8 ★	334	Rare plants and trees
Plants That Grow Direct	Great Yeldham	~18 km E	4.7 ★	99	Petals Tea Rooms; logs

All centres listed on allgardencentres.co.uk. Ratings from Google Maps public data, September 2026.

📊 How It Compares Locally

Benchmarked against 65 Essex garden centres tracked on this site (September 2026 data).

The Taylors Barns site at Howlett End near Saffron Walden, home to Saffron Walden Garden Centre, a café and a butcher among its units. (this listing)

4 ★

Essex average (65 centres)

4.45 ★

Highest in dataset

5 ★

The Taylors Barns site at Howlett End near Saffron Walden, home to Saffron Walden Garden Centre, a café and a butcher among its units. rates just below the Essex average (4 vs 4.45 ★ county mean).

65 Essex garden centres tracked on allgardencentres.co.uk. All Google public rating data, September 2026.

☑️ Before You Go

This is the site rather than a single business — the garden centre here is listed separately as Saffron Walden Garden Centre.
Each unit keeps its own hours; check with the specific business before travelling.
There is a butcher and a café on site alongside the garden centre.
Parking serves the whole complex.

🔍 Data & Source Confidence

✅ Business name confirmed

✅ Full address present

✅ Phone number verified

⚠️ Official website not found

✅ Google rating (public data)

✅ Opening hours sourced

✅ GPS coordinates verified

⚠️ Owner not yet claimed

Rating data: Sourced from Google Maps public listing, September 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google. Review themes are editorial summaries drawn from a sample of recent public reviews — not verbatim quotes from any reviewer.
Opening hours: Sourced from Google Business Profile at time of collection. Hours can change — always verify before visiting, especially on bank holidays.
Distances: Straight-line (as-the-crow-flies) estimates using GPS coordinates. Actual driving distance will be greater.

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