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We also have research on sites which do not appear above including, for example, Ashwell Bury and Warrenwood near Essendon, and these will be added to the list in due course.

Research on these and other sites has been published in a variety of books, journals and newsletters:

More general books and articles relating to Hertfordshire’s parks and gardens include:

K. Banister, ‘The Pulham family of Hertfordshire and their work’ in A. Rowe (ed.), Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2007)

K. Banister, ‘Salads and ornamentals: A short history of the Lea Valley nursery industry’ in D. Spring (ed.), Hertfordshire Garden History volume II, Gardens pleasant, groves delicious (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012)

R. Gedye, ‘Fashions, fame and a puzzle or two’ (18^th-century gardens) The Association of Gardens Trusts 2014 Yearbook

R. Gedye, ‘The Celebrity of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’ in HGT Spring Newsletter, 2016

R. Gedye, ‘The Pulhams in Hertfordshire’ in HGT Spring Newsletter, 2019

K. Harwood, ‘Some Hertfordshire Nabobs’ in A. Rowe (ed.), Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2007)

K. Harwood, ‘Hearts, Minds and Historic Landscapes’ in Context 118, March 2011

K. Harwood, ‘Challenges and Constraints: Conservation from an HGT Perspective’, HGT Spring Newsletter, 2013

K. Harwood, ‘Some Arts and Crafts gardens in Hertfordshire’ in D. Spring (ed.), Hertfordshire Garden History volume II, Gardens pleasant, groves delicious (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012)

K. Harwood, ‘Parks in Crisis’ in HGT Autumn Newsletter, 2016

K. Harwood, ‘Utopia to Dystopia: Planning in the 21^st Century’, HGT Spring Newsletter, 2017

K. Harwood, ‘The East India Company in Hertfordshire: An Introduction’ in Structure and Landscape – William Wilkins and Humphry Repton at Haileybury 1806-1810(Hertfordshire Gardens Trust, 2018)

H. Leiper, ‘Mr Lancelot Brown and his Hertfordshire clients’ in D. Spring (ed.), Hertfordshire Garden History volume II, Gardens pleasant, groves delicious (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012)

A. Macnair, A. Rowe and T. Williamson, ‘Mansions, Parks and Gardens’ in Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire: Society and landscape in the eighteenth century (Windgather Press, 2015)

T. Mowl*, ‘John Drapentier’s Views of the Gentry Gardens of Hertfordshire’, Garden History vol 29.2 Winter 2001

H. Prince, Parks in Hertfordshire since 1500 (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2008)

A. Rowe, ‘The Distribution of Parks in Hertfordshire: Landscape, Lordship and Woodland’ in R. Liddiard (ed.), The Medieval Park – new perspectives (Windgather Press, 2008)

A. Rowe, Medieval Parks of Hertfordshire (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2009 and 2019)

A. Rowe, Tudor and early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2019)

A. Rowe, ‘Hertfordshire’s Lost Water Gardens’ in D. Spring (ed.), Hertfordshire Garden History Volume II: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012)

A. Rowe, 'Brownian landscapes on the map of Hertfordshire by Dury and Andrews’ in HGT Spring Newsletter, 2016

A. Rowe and T. Williamson, ‘Great houses & designed landscapes’ and ‘Woods, parks and pastures’ in Hertfordshire: a landscape history (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2013)

M. Thompson, ‘Repton in the Flower Garden’ in Structure and Landscape – William Wilkins and Humphry Repton at Haileybury 1806-1810(Hertfordshire Gardens Trust, 2018)

E. Waugh, ‘Planting the gardens: The nursery trade in Hertfordshire’ in D. Spring (ed.), Hertfordshire Garden History volume II, Gardens pleasant, groves delicious (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012)

T. Williamson, ‘The character of Hertfordshire’s parks and gardens’ in A. Rowe (ed.), Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2007)

* not HGT