Dear Society members and general heritage/history enthusiasts, There is currently a government led Local Heritage Listing initiative to record local sites, buildings, and monuments that are of community and heritage importance, but have either not met the strict statutory listing requirement, or have simply slipped through the net. Buckinghamshire Council has received funding for this...Read More
Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens Well, you learn something every day. I knew of William Robinson as the proponent of revolutionary but hugely influential ideas about naturalistic planting, put forward in such books as The Wild Garden (1870) and The English Flower Garden (1883); and about his arguments against architects’ involvement in garden design (Garden Design...Read More
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE CEMETERIES Cemeteries and their designed landscapes have long been of interest to our volunteer Sarah Rutherford. As Head of Historic England’s Register of Parks and Gardens she led a project to assess the significance of cemeteries across England, and since then as a consultant she has worked on various other cemetery assessment projects for...Read More
Gertrude Jekyll in Historic Bucks – commissions in date order Date Property name Architect Client HE Register (Grade) or BGT Site Dossier 1893 Woodside, Chenies Sir E Lutyens Adeline, Duchess of Bedford II* 1895 Tilecotes, Marlow Mr Graves – 1895 Gazely, Marlow Revd M Graves – 1895 Seymour Court, Marlow Mr T Wethered – 1901...Read More
We are publishing each site we have investigated as part of our Research and Recording Project. Our group is discovering a wealth of information about each site.Read More
The nationally important sites have in general been the subject of considerable research and the fact that they are registered offers them a certain amount of protection.Read More
