High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wakehurst Place is National Trust property located near Ardingly, West Sussex in the High Weald of southern England (grid reference TQ340315), comprising a late 16th century country house and a mainly 20th century garden, managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. For the National Trust`s 2008–2009 fiscal year Wakehurst Place Garden was the Trust`s most visited property for which admission was charged, with 439,627 visitors. The house rated an illustration in Joseph Nash, The mansions of England in the olden time, I839-49.