On 9 April 2014 the research team and guests enjoyed a great afternoon at Tring Park at the invitation of the Woodland Trust to celebrate the restoration of the Charles Bridgeman rond-point – ceremonially completed by the planting of the final tree by Lady Verulam. A...
Hertfordshire: A Landscape History More than three decades after the publication of Lionel Munby's seminal work, The Hertfordshire Landscape, Anne Rowe and Tom Williamson have produced an authoritative new study based on their own extensive fieldwork and documentary...
Following the HGT request for designation at Hanstead House, Bricket Wood in 2013, the Yule Mausoleum in the garden was given a Grade II Listing. The sculpture is particularly fine and following an article in 2013, in Mausolus, the magazine of the Monuments and...
The last remaining Detached Gardens in Hertfordshire - which have been called Inland Beach Huts - are threatened by proposals from HCC for housing on them. This would be a disastrous loss of a unique piece of our garden heritage and HGT has already alerted...
Stop Tarmac Destroying Repton's Broadwater. Please Act Now. Humphry Repton advised the 5th Earl Cowper on the design of his new Panshanger Park in 1799. The tree-covered valley sides and the sinuous Broadwater that winds its way through the western end of today’s park...
Tarmac issued a statement in January 2017 stating that their ‘key aim is to ensure that we maintain and conserve the historic Repton landscape’. In 2016 the HGT instigated a campaign to save the Lower Broadwater - a key feature of the landscape designed by Humphry...
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