Landscape record 0410001000 - NEWLAND PARK

First shown on 1825 map (B3) with boundaries roughly corresponding to those on OS 1960 1:10560 map (B8).
Recorded as a proper park (B3).
A well wooded estate of 550 acres (B1,B5,B7).
Park and gardens have a long and chequered history. Some historic features remaining but heavily developed with Amersham and Wycombe College Campus (B10).
Newland Park is an C18 and C19 country house with a park, gardens and pleasure grounds. The
landscape was laid out in the late C18 with modifications in the C19 and remodelling of the garden in
the early C20 with a formal scheme by the renowned landscape architect Thomas Mawson, 1901-03.
The grounds survive largely intact with much mature ornamental planting and an extensive formal
drive from Chalfont St Peter and are a good example of a Chiltern estate. The many later C20 and C21 structures were built for the college in the park where the Chiltern Open Air Museum is also located. While these disparate buildings cluster around the house, drive and pleasure grounds they have left the key ornamental features intact. See report for detail (B13).