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Cherry Lane Braintree | Braintree, Essex

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Cherry Lane Braintree

★★★★☆ 4.3 / 5 · 978 Google reviews · Braintree

💷 Strong value ☕ Watering Can Café 🏠 Household goods 🐠 Aquatics supplies 🎄 Christmas range 🅿️ Free parking

🌐 Website 📞 Call 📍 Directions ✏️ Claim Listing

📍 Coggeshall Road, Braintree CM77 8AE

🕐 Opening Hours

Monday	9 AM – 5:30 PM
Tuesday	9 AM – 5:30 PM
Wednesday	9 AM – 5:30 PM
Thursday	9 AM – 5:30 PM
Friday	9 AM – 5:30 PM
Saturday	9 AM – 5:30 PM
Sunday	10 AM – 4:30 PM

The Watering Can Café may run shorter hours than the garden centre.
Hours may vary on bank holidays — always verify before visiting.

🌿 What’s Here

💷

Keen Pricing
Repeatedly described as good value, with regular bargains

☕

Watering Can Café
On-site café well reviewed for breakfasts and group bookings

🪴

Plant Selection
Good general plant range at competitive prices

🏠

Household Goods
Homeware and general goods alongside the garden range

🐠

Aquatics Supplies
Fish food and aquatics sundries

🎁

Gifts
Gift range and seasonal lines

🎄

Christmas Stock
Seasonal Christmas range

🅿️

Free Parking
On-site car park

⭐ What Visitors Commonly Mention

Themes from recent public Google reviews sampled September 2026 — editorial summaries, not verbatim quotes. Bars show relative prominence within the sample, not counts of all 978 reviews.

Value & bargains

most mentioned

Watering Can Café

frequently mentioned

Plant selection

frequently mentioned

Staff helpfulness

regularly mentioned

Household & gift range

regularly mentioned

Christmas stock

seasonally mentioned

Sentiment summary: Value is the defining theme — reviewers repeatedly describe good prices and bargains, and one sums up the character as ‘not all posh but lots of bargains’. The Watering Can Café earns warm reviews, particularly for breakfasts and for accommodating groups and celebrations.

Source: Google Maps public review data, sampled September 2026. This page is not a review platform and does not collect first-party reviews.

📍 Getting Here

🚗 By Car
Coggeshall Road, Braintree — free on-site parking

🚆 By Rail
Braintree and Braintree Freeport stations serve the town

🚶 On Foot
Reachable on foot from parts of Braintree, and used by local walking groups

☕ Café
The Watering Can Café takes group bookings

Coordinates: 51.8797827, 0.6005299 · 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
Braintree Garden Centre	Braintree	~2 km W	4.3 ★	1,091	Maidenhead Aquatics, large Christmas display
Perrywood Tiptree	Tiptree	~12 km SE	4.6 ★	3,945	Largest plant range in the county
Poplar Nurseries	Marks Tey	~12 km E	4.4 ★	1,723	Food hall and miniature train
Fillpots	Colchester	~18 km E	4.3 ★	1,026	King’s Seeds stockist

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).

Cherry Lane (this listing)

4.3 ★

Essex average (65 centres)

4.45 ★

Highest in dataset

5 ★

Cherry Lane rates just below the Essex average (4.3 vs 4.45 ★ county mean). Its rating is level with its larger neighbour, but reviewers consistently rate it better on price.

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

☑️ Before You Go

This is one of the better-value centres in the county — reviewers consistently highlight bargains across both plants and household goods.
The Watering Can Café takes group bookings and has hosted walking groups and birthday celebrations.
Breakfasts are the best-reviewed item on the café menu.
The household and gift ranges are broader than at most garden centres of this size.
Free on-site parking, with no charges reported.

🔍 Data & Source Confidence

✅ Business name confirmed

✅ Full address present

✅ Phone number verified

✅ Official website linked

✅ 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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