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Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Publications

Publications

The Trust has a 25-year history of publishing reports and books, the most recent Trust publication being  Humphry Repton in Buckinghamshire and beyond edited by Sarah Rutherford in 2018.

In 2013 the Trust embarked on a long-term project to research and record as many of the county’s historic sites, including cemeteries and parks that were not protected under Historic England’s Register of Parks & Gardens. The reports/dossiers are in two sections, the Buckinghamshire Locally Important Sites and the Buckinghamshire Nationally Important Sites.

By 2022 more than 100 reports/dossiers had been compiled by our volunteer recorders, some of which have aided in the prevention of unsympathetic development. These reports have now been added to the Buckinghamshire Local Heritage List, a government led Local Heritage Listing initiative to record local sites, buildings, and monuments that are of community and heritage importance. Thorough the Trust a number of our volunteer researchers and members are contributing to this project. A further 15 reports are to be found in the Artists’ Gardens project category.

This Publications section serves as a current archive of the work of the Trust and is continually being added to. The Research News gives updates on county sites, or research that has been undertaken by Gardens Trusts nationally such as The Bicycle Boys.

Nationally and locally important sites: an explanation

There are a total of 46 nationally important sites in Buckinghamshire, Grade I (6), Grade II* (11), and Grade II (29); these are all included on the Historic England Register of Parks & Gardens. They are therefore not being considered for inclusion on the Buckinghamshire Council Local Heritage List. It is important to remember that if a building is listed it does not follow that the garden is registered as generally the two must be considered separately.

https://bucksgardenstrust.org.uk/research-and-recording/nationally-important-sites/

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/

To be included on the Local Heritage List (LHL) Parks and Gardens need to survive intact or enough of the layout needs to survive to reflect the original design. Other significant points to consider are the history of the site, archaeological, artistic, and architectural interest. Gardens are ephemeral by nature and change with fashions, they are exposed to the vagaries of nature and time. Horticulture itself is not usually a consideration when assessing a historic garden although trees can be used to date the garden to a particular period. To date, the parks and gardens that have been nominated for the LHL are all those that have been researched and recorded by the BGT volunteers over the last ten years. Please note the LHL does not include the unitary authority of Milton Keynes.

https://bucksgardenstrust.org.uk/research-and-recording/locally-important-sites/

To find out more about the LHL, a number of YouTube videos are available including one on Parks and Gardens. Follow this link for videos on aspects of the LHL, especially ‘Understanding the historic parks and gardens of Buckinghamshire’.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tAtnRr3ysK95dExsuj7-Q

25
Feb

Robert Marnock in Buckinghamshire

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...
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08
Jul

Chesham Cemetery “positive feedback for Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Cemetery…”

  Chesham Cemetery  is now a Non-designated Heritage Asset (NDHA) During the covid lock-down the Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust researchers, led by Dr Sarah Rutherford, continued to produce reports on public parks and cemeteries  in the historic county as they were accessible. This recent article, printed in the local free monthly publication”Your Chesham” features a report...
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14
Feb

Buckinghamshire Sites – Cemeteries

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.
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14
Feb

Buckinghamshire Sites – Parks

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.
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13
Feb

Artists’ Gardens Reports

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....
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02
Apr

Buckinghamshire Locally Important Sites – main list

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.
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02
Apr

Buckinghamshire Nationally Important Sites

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.
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