History

The company is based on the famous Battle of Britain airfield, which was originally the home of RAF Tangmere. The airfield closed in the late 1970's and gradually fell into decline until 1989 when Dirk Houweling established Tangmere Airfield Nurseries Ltd with the purchase of the land.

The airfield is now the home to one of Europe's largest pepper nurseries with more than fifty acres of some of the most modern glasshouse facilities in Great Britain, with an additional 10 acres being added in the second half of 2009.

Our Spanish site was acquired by the group in 2001 and our 30 acre state-of-the-art glasshouse was built in two main stages.

The Tangmere Nurseries UK site

The Tangmere Nurseries Spanish site