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One of the most important activities of the Trust is its research into Buckinghamshire’s parks, gardens and open spaces.
Our Research and Recording Group investigates and records the history of individual parks and gardens to ascertain their historic significance, record their current condition and inform their future conservation and development.
Our Research Group is friendly, lively and very active; we meet at Buckinghamshire Council offices about every six weeks to report on research findings and share good research practice. Volunteers are also invited to attend training days and educational visits, both locally and further afield. The Group’s research is used to raise awareness and inform owners and those responsible for the management of historic parks and gardens. Importantly, it is also used to inform the Trust’s responses to planning applications that may affect a site on the local or national Register.
Our all-important research findings feed into not only our local planning authority but Parks & Gardens UK and the Historic England List as well as being available for access to all online.
The sites we work on fall into the following categories:
We need volunteers who are interested in gardens, horticulture, social and cultural history, local history or archaeology to get involvresearch@bucksgardenstrust.org.uked and help support our work. If you would like to join our enthusiastic team helping to understand more about our garden heritage, please contact us.
Our group are discovering a wealth of information about each site, and once their reports on each site are completed they are published here. Hard copies are only provided to the property’s owners, Buckinghamshire Council’s planning department and their Historic Environment Register and Buckinghamshire Archives. In April 2020 Buckinghamshire became a unitary authority, the former districts all coming under the control of Buckinghamshire Council. For the foreseeable future and the purposes of our project we will continue to use the four district names as they divide the county into more manageable areas.
Former local authority districts:
AVDC – Aylesbury Vale District Council
ChDC – Chiltern District Council
RBWM – Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead
SBDC – South Bucks District Council
WyDC – Wycombe District Council
Other unitary authorities:
MKC – Milton Keynes Council
SlBC – Slough Borough Council
As our research on each site is completed it will be added to the (alphabetical) list here. Simply click on the name of a site to download the pdf file.
[R] indicates that the site is on the Historic England Register of Parks and Gardens and thus also appears on our list of Nationally Important Sites.
Please see below the main list for a separate list of cemetery sites. If you know of any other Bucks cemeteries worth recording (NB not church graveyards), please contact us.
Addington Manor AVDC
Alderbourne Manor SBDC
Alscot Lodge WyDC
Barton Hartshorn AVDC
Baylis Park, Slough SlBC
Bekonscot ChDC
Bletchley Park MKC
Boarstall Tower AVDC
Bradwell House MKC
Brands House, Four Ashes WyDC
Caldecotte Lake MKC
Campbell Park MKC [R]
Castle Hill House, High Wycombe WyDC
Ceeley House AVDC
Central Milton Keynes MKC
Chalfont Park ChDC
Chenies Manor ChDC
Chesham Bois House ChDC
Chetwode ManorAVDC
Chetwode Priory AVDC
Chilterns Crematorium ChDC
Chilton House AVDC
Cowper & Newton Museum, Olney MKC
Dancers End Pumping Station, AVDC
Denham Grove SBDC
Dinton Hall AVDC
Ditton Park SlBC [R]
Doddershall Park AVDC
Dorney Court SBDC
Dorton House AVDC
Dorton Spa AVDC
East Burnham Park SBDC
Great Brickhill Manor AVDC
Greenlands, Hambleden WyDC
Green Park, Aston Clinton AVDC
Hampden House WyDC
Hanslope Park MKC
Heatherden Hall, home of Pinewood Studios SBDC
High & Over, Amersham ChDC
Hillesden House AVDC
Horsenden Manor WyDC
Horwood House AVDC
Lilies, Weedon AVDC
Lillingstone House AVDC
Little Halings, (Tile House Farm) SBDC
The Manor House, Bledlow WyDC
Manor House/Brooke House, Princes Risborough WyDC
Nether Winchendon Manor AVDC
Newlands Tree Cathedral MKC
Orchard House, Olney MKC
Ouzel Valley Park MKC
Oving House AVDC
Pednor House ChDC
Poundon HouseAVDC
Rayners, (formerly Penn School) (updated Jan 2021) WyDC
Richings SBDC
Rignalls WyDC
Savay Farm, Denham SBDC
St Katharine’s, Parmoor WyDC
Stoke Court SBDC
Stoke Place SBDC
Tingewick Hall AVDC
Wavendon House MKC [R]
Wendover Manor AVDC
Weston Park MKC
Willen Lakes, MKC
Winslow Hall AVDC
Woodlands Park ChDC
Woodrow High House ChDC
Cemeteries
Amersham St Mary’s Cemetery ChDC
Aylesbury Cemetery AVDC
Buckingham Cemetery AVDC
Chesham Cemetery ChDC
Dadford Burial Ground AVDC
Eton (St John) Cemetery RBWM
High Wycombe Cemetery WyDC
Marlow Cemetery WyDC
Newport Pagnell, Ousebank Cemetery MKC
Stony Stratford, Calverton Road MKC
