Landscape record 0020402000 - Aston Clinton Park and House

A number of parkland features shown on the 1st edition 6" OS map still remain, although many have now gone. Field fences and sports grounds etc have been superimposed onto the original landscape. Ornamental trees near house, however there are no details of any visible gardens on recent APs (B7).
The remains of a mid‐late C19 garden and park for a lost country house, forming an early element of a unique cluster of seven flamboyant C19 Rothschild country house landscapes in Buckinghamshire/ Hertfordshire (the closest comparable of which are nearby Halton House and Tring Park). The design incorporates features from previous C18/C19 design phases and a canal, with mid‐C19 buildings by Stokes and Devey (who both worked on nearby Rothschild sites) and extensive mature ornamental tree planting. The 75 ha. Site is contiguous with adjacent Halton House, also for the Rothschild family. Although many features and much woody planting survives including parkland, losses and change have been sustained in the C20, including during the 1960s adaptation to a training centre, included most notably the replacement of the lost mansion with a large recreational building, and residential development around the northern periphery. See report for detail (B9).