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Top 25 Nurseries based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 987 nurseries headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 7,897 professional contacts across them, including 1,523 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers nurseries headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest nurseries based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 951 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by James Dobbie, we’ve been helping Britain grow since 1865.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 591 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kids Planet not only provides the highest standard of nursery care and education but also a unique environment in which children are actively encouraged to explore, learn and to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 351 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Grandir UK operates nurseries across the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 231 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Squire’s Garden Centres is a family owned group of 16 garden centres based in Surrey, Sussex, Berkshire, West London and Middlesex.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We opened our first nursery in 1991 and now operate 39 nurseries throughout the South and Wales!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A Retail and Wholesale Company selling quality Trees, Plants and Shrubs from our Garden Centres and Wholesale Nurseries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We at Thrive Childcare operate 46 exceptional nurseries across the UK, providing a nurturing and stimulating environment where children come first every time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Storal is a group of award-winning nurseries across the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “W.BOYES & CO,LIMITED is a retail company based out of HAVERS HILL EASTFIELD, NR SCARBOROUGH, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Little Elms is an established nursery that aims to provide the highest standards of care for children aged between 3 months and 5 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Webbs is an award winning Midlands based Garden Centre retailer with a 200 year old history, 2 sites and a growing ecommerce business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Great Place to Work - Certified We have 13 nurseries across South East England and provide childcare and early education for children from the age of 3 months to school age.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Double H Nurseries Ltd is the largest indoor potted plant grower in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are passionate about gardens and have been selling outdoor living products online since 2003.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by entrepreneur and lifelong gardener Peter McDermott back in 2012, You Garden, is an award winning, home-shopping retailer of horticultural and lifestyle products, based…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Buttercups Day Nurseries is a family-run group that has been delivering outstanding early years care and education for over 40 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Little Green Rascals Children’s Organic Day Nurseries are the first fully organic and eco-friendly children's nurseries group in the North of England.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With almost 60-years of experience at the cutting edge of garden and leisure retailing, Van Hage remains at the forefront of the horticulture industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tutti Bambini is a British family owned nursery furniture company with a brand ethos that focuses on practicality, quality and safety.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Greenwood Plants specialises in landscape supply to the new build property, commercial, and infrastructure sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wyevale Nurseries provides a one-stop-shop for a variety of industries looking for field and container-grown trees, transplants and container shrubs and herbaceous plants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A third-generation family business with a proud history of innovation and sustainable growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tates of Sussex is a retail company based out of 17 Old Shoreham Road, Portslade, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Muddy Boots is a family-from-family, home-from-home nursery, offering places for children aged between 6 weeks and 5 years old.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: nurseries. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names nurseries.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of nurseries, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name nurseries. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Nurseries based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 987 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among nurseries, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “nurseries”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names nurseries), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among nurseries, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,523 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Nurseries by metro
- Nurseries in London81
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names nurseries, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many nurseries are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 987 nurseries headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Dobbies Garden Centres, headquartered in Lasswade, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most nurseries?
London leads with 81 headquartered companies, followed by Birmingham (11) and Edinburgh (8).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,523 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 987 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.