Set in acres of private parkland on the edge of Great Baddow, just south of Chelmsford, Baddow Park Estate is a business park for organisations across different sectors. It's a place that belongs entirely to you for the day — the house, the gardens and the grounds, yours alone, with no other events and no one else to share it with.

Inside, rooms with real character: the panelled Oak Room and its open fire for something intimate, the light-filled Drawing Room with views across the landscape, and the glass Orangery opening onto the terrace, where a ceremony can turn into a dinner and then into a party as the evening draws in. Outside, lawns, wild meadows and the Oak Pavilion give you room to breathe between the moments that matter.

With eleven bedrooms on site, in-house catering and a team who plan the whole day around you, Baddow Park is less a venue you book and more a house you borrow — an hour from London, a world away from everything else.