Landscape record 0147105000 - HEDSOR PARK (GD3165)

Summary

Mid to late eighteenth century landscape park and pleasure grounds with nineteenth and twenieth century formal gardens

Protected Status/Designation

  • Planning Notification Area: 18th century landscape park with 19th and 20th century formal gardens at Hedsor Park (DBC9550)
  • Registered Park or Garden (II) GD4031: Hedsor House (DBC1094)

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Type and Period (3)

  • LANDSCAPE PARK (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD to 1899 AD)
  • FORMAL GARDEN (20th Century to Modern - 1900 AD to 1907 AD)
  • PLEASANCE (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

GRADE II. MID-LATE C18 LANDSCAPE PARK & PLEASURE GROUNDS SURROUNDING A C19 COUNTRY HOUSE, WITH FORMAL C19 & C20 ELEMENTS. PRINCIPLE SURVIVING REMAINS COMPRISE PARKLAND, WOODED PLEASURE GROUNDS, ROSE & LILY POOL GARDENS, DUTCH GARDEN, WALLED KITCHEN GARDEN, & GARDEN BUILDINGS [MORE] (B8).
WDC enforcement officer reports substantial groundworks carried out by farmer in vicinity of folly at SU90578663 (B9).

Sources (2)

  • <8>SBC4637 Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 1994. Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England: Buckinghamshire. Part 4. Added ?March 1999, updated October 1999.
  • <9>SBC23133 Verbal communication: Matthew Jackson (Wycombe District Council). 2008. Matthew Jackson to David Radford (BCC), pers comm, June 2008.

Location

Grid reference Centred SU 91223 86214 (1551m by 1302m)
Civil Parish HEDSOR, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (2)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC13849)

Record last edited

Dec 13 2023 9:30AM

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