In 2023 Sheffield Botanical Gardens in collaboration with The Gardens Trust carried out extensive research into and celebrations of the Victorian garden designer Robert Marnock (see https://www.sbg.org.uk/celebrating-marnock). Our Chair, Claire de Carle has written three reports about the work he is known to have carried out in Buckiinghamshire the links are below. Robert Marnock in...Read More
A summary of our 2020-21 research and site reports by Sarah Rutherford and Claire de Carle appears in the Bucks Archaeological Society’s annual publication Records of Bucks No. 62 for 2022. The article discusses the R&R project and the Bucks Council Local Heritage List project as well as giving overviews of the 16 latest sites...Read More
BGT, advising the Gardens Trust, has played a significant role in the refusal by Buckinghamshire Council of a planning application by the Ministry of Justice to develop a new ‘megaprison’ at Grendon Underwood. The Category C prison, intended to house up to 1468 prisoners, would have covered an area of 6.7 ha on a greenfield...Read More
Spring 2021 Christmas 2020 Autumn 2020 July 2020 June 2020 Spring 2020 Autumn 2019 Spring 2019 Autumn 2018 Spring 2018 Books and media Humphry Repton in Buckinghamshire and Beyond Autumn 2018, 4 Buckinghamshire gardens on film Christmas 2020, 10-11 General Buckinghamshire in 100 Objects June 2020, 11 National Heritage List Spring 2020, 5 Planning reform...Read More
Note: The Bucks Gardens Trust is updating a number of Artists and their Gardens reports now that museums, galleries and record offices are open. We hope to reinstate the reports under review by the end of 2021. Artists’ Gardens – Update February 2021 We are pleased to announce that we have now completed reports on...Read More
As of January 2021, we have completed 80 dossiers on our locally important sites, available to view via our Research and Recording page. The new ones added in 2020 are: Bradwell Manor in Milton Keynes, Ceeley House (Bucks County Museum), Greenlands (Hambleden), Hampden House and two more parks in Milton Keynes, Caldecotte Lake and Ouzel...Read More
Note: The Bucks Gardens Trust is updating a number of Artists and their Gardens reports now that museums, galleries and record offices are open. We hope to reinstate the reports under review by the end of 2021. Please note that all these gardens are in private ownership and therefore are not open to the public....Read More
