We have set up this blog to keep everyone interested in garden history up to speed with all the exciting discoveries we are making as we research the counties for the Historic Gardens & Landscapes of England project. Tim Mowl, his Research Fellow Clare Hickman, and the county consultants will be posting regular blog entries and we hope that you will come back to us with your comments on our findings. The three counties currently under research are Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Berkshire. The book on Somerset has just been published by Redcliffe Press; it would be good to know what you think of it. We look forward to telling you what we find.
The Project Team
Seventeenth-century Dovecote at Hellens, Much Marcle, Herefordshire
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I have found your site and enjoyed the content.
You are sincere regarding your research.
Are you in any way able find people keen to save Oldway Mansion in Paignton, please? This landscape once lost will leave a void in leisure for so many who can take a stroll at any time of the year in peace and tranquillity.
Hi Patricia
We have pursposely steered clear iof Devon because there is already a good book out down there about the garden history of the county – by Todd Gray. And the county is so huge! But I am going down for a couple of days this summer with my daughter so will try and check out Oldway. That’s when I can tear myself away from writing Herefordshire and planning Cambridgeshire, from which I have just returned with excitements. Look out for a comment from Laura Mayer, the Cambs consultant, soon.
Tim
Thank you for your interest and may you be able find something of great significance which will have such interest that the grounds may stay preserved for the benefit of the local people in perpetuity..Patricia
Thank you for your interest and may you be able to find something of great significance which will have such interest that the grounds may stay preserved for the benefit of the local people in perpetuity. Patricia