A growing public map of giant sequoia, coast redwood, and dawn redwood places, with practical access and source context.
Start here · standout places to visit
Dunoon · Argyll and Bute
Home to one of the most impressive giant sequoia avenues in Britain. Planted in 1863 from seeds brought directly from California, the avenue of over a hundred sequoias creates a cathedral-like approach to the garden. The trees are now among the tallest in Scotland.
Welshpool · Powys
Community source evidence records redwoods at Leighton Hall Sequoia Grove in Welshpool, Powys. Recorded species include Giant Sequoia. Use the linked sources and current access information before visiting.
New Forest · Hampshire
A dramatic drive through a double avenue of coast redwoods planted in 1859. The trees now tower over 40 metres above the road and create one of the most striking woodland experiences in southern England. Part of the New Forest National Park.
Tetbury · Gloucestershire
Westonbirt is a major Forestry England arboretum in Gloucestershire, created nearly 200 years ago and now spread across a vast landscape of woodland and specimen plantings. Its collections include notable giant sequoias and coast redwoods among one of Britain’s great tree-focused visits.
Start with the question you have · quickest ways in
Use one-time location or a town search when the question is simply whether there is a redwood worth the detour.
Start with Near me → First outingBegin with the places that are easiest to reach and easiest to trust when you want a calm first day out.
Browse free-to-visit places → Species guideLearn what giant sequoia, coast redwood, and dawn redwood each feel like before you start filtering the map.
Read the species guide → Standout placesGo straight to notable groves, landmark avenues, and the records that carry the strongest sense of scale.
Browse notable trees → Trip planningUse routes when stop order matters, or region pages when you want to keep the day anchored to one part of Britain.
See route ideas → Trust and correctionsSee how Redwood Finder treats sources, access, evidence, and corrections when you need to know what the page can actually prove.
Read the methodology →Three species · three different field reads
Look for broad, massive trunks in estates, arboreta, and civic parks, including many British plantings from the Victorian wave.
Tall, moisture-loving redwoods found most often in mild western gardens, ravines, and sheltering parkland.
Deciduous redwoods with soft, feathery leaves and copper autumn colour, often planted in parks and botanic gardens.
Choose a lens · region, access, mood
The giant sequoia — the largest tree by volume on Earth — was introduced to Britain in the 1850s. These are standout places to encounter it across the UK.
Redwood places that are open to the public at no charge, with straightforward access and no ticket needed.
Dramatic avenues, towering groves, and atmospheric woodland — places that reward a camera and a slow walk.
Giant sequoias and coast redwoods arrived in Britain in 1853, and the country kept planting them. What began as Victorian curiosity has become a living landscape story, still visible in parks, estates, botanic gardens, avenues, and churchyards.
Many of those trees are now 150 to 170 years old, which means the best places can feel both historic and startlingly alive. A walk under a redwood avenue is not just a tree sighting, it is a record of how Britain once imagined scale, rarity, and wonder.
Britain also happens to suit them. Mild winters, wet western valleys, and deep parkland soils have helped redwoods thrive here, especially in Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and other Atlantic-facing landscapes. That is why Redwood Finder treats these places as part of a real shared landscape, not a novelty list.
Read why they grow here →Notes and background · read before you go