Our Work So Far

We have carried out extensive research in four areas of the county and the results of our work can be seen in a variety of books and articles and in an ever-growing collection of comprehensive reports detailing the histories of dozens of Hertfordshire’s parks and gardens. Most of these reports can be seen in Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS) at County Hall, Hertford, including those for the following sites:

Ardeley Bury Astwick Manor, Hatfield Ayot House Barvin Park, Northaw Benington Lordship Benington Park Benington Parsonage Blakesware, Wareside Bonningtons, Stanstead Abbots Brickendonbury Bride Hall, Ayot St Lawrence Broadfield Hall, Cottered Brocket Park, Hatfield Brookmans Park, North Mymms Bush Hall, Hatfield Bygrave Manor Cecil Lodge, Abbots Langley Childwickbury, St Albans Colegreen Park, Hertingfordbury Dalton House, St Albans


Danesbury, Welwyn Fanhams Hall, Ware Furneux Pelham Hall Gorhambury, St Albans
High Canons, Shenley
High Leigh, Hoddesdon Hitchin Priory Holywell House, St Albans Homewood, Knebworth Hunsdon House
Hunsdonbury Kings Walden Bury Knebworth House Lamer, Wheathampstead Leggatts Park, Potters Bar Little Court, Buntingford Mackerye End Marshalswick, St Albans Moor Place, Much Hadham North Road House, Hertford Northaw Place


Offley Place Panshanger, Hertford Presdales, Ware Rivers Nursery Orchard, Sawbridgeworth Rothamsted, Harpenden Rowney Priory, Little Munden Sacombe Park Skimpans, North Mymms Standon Lordship Stanstead Bury Temple Dinsley, Preston Tewin House The Hoo, Kimpton/Whitwell The Hook, Northaw The Lordship, Much Hadham Tyttenhanger, Ridge Wheathampstead House Woolmers Park, Hertingfordbury
Wyddial Hall

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:

Site
Author(s)
Title
Publication
Year
Abbots Hill, Abbot’s Langley T. Williamson ‘Gardens and industry: The landscape of the Gade valley in the nineteenth century’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
Aldenham House A. Le Lievre* ‘An account of the garden at Aldenham House and of its makers’ Garden History vol. 14.1

1986

 

Ashridge House, Little Gaddesden M. Thompson 'Humphry Repton at Ashridge' HGT Spring Newsletter 2018
Ashridge House, Little Gaddesden M. Thompson & T. Williamson 'Humphry Repton at Ashridge' University of Herts Press 2018
Ashridge Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Ashwell Bury L. Moynihan ‘Two Formidable Women’ HGT Autumn Newsletter 2016
Ashwell Cottage Garden L. Moynihan 'Ashwell Cottage Garden' HGT Autumn Newsletter 2018
Aspenden Hall D. Spring ‘The London connection: Gardens of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
Ayot House, Ayot St Lawrence K. Harwood ‘Sir Lionel Lyde of Ayot St Lawrence, 1724-1791. Slavery, tobacco and some lavish parties’ Herts Past & Present, 3rd series, No. 4 2004
Bedwell Park, Essendon K. Bannister & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Bedwell Park, Essendon A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Beechwood nr Markyate L. Clarke ‘Beechwood: a 21stC perspective on an 18thC landscape park’ HGT Spring Newsletter 2016
Benington Lordship R. Gedye 'Members gardens with a story to tell - Benington Lordship' HGT Autumn Newsletter 2018
Benington Park A. Rowe, C. Taylor & T. Williamson ‘The earthworks at Benington Park, Hertfordshire: an exercise in dating an ‘archaeological garden’’ Landscape History vol. 32, issue 2 2011
Benington Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Brickendonbury S. Friend 'Brickendonbury: The Avenue Puzzle' HGT Autumn Newsletter 2017
Briggens, Hunsdon A.C. Skelton* ‘The development of the Briggens estate, Hunsdon, since 1720’ Hertfordshire Archaeology vol. 12 1994-96
Brocket Park, Hatfield E. Gatland ‘Richard Woods in Hertfordshire’ Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany 2007
Brocket Hall Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Brookmans Park, North Mimms A. Robinson & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Broxbourne C. Banister ‘The Crown Hotel Gardens, Broxbourne’ HGT Autumn Newsletter 2012
Bush Hall, Hatfield J. Sloan ‘Bush Hall, Hatfield’ HGT Autumn Newsletter 2013
Bushey Hall A. Rowe ‘Hertfordshire’s lost water gardens 1500-1750’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
Cashiobury Park, Watford J. Sloan & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Cashiobury Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Cassiobury, Watford, T. Williamson ‘Gardens and industry: The landscape of the Gade valley in the nineteenth century’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
Castle Village/Shenstone Court, Berkhamsted K. Harwood ‘Lady Alice Cooper and her Japanese Gardens’ HGT Autumn Newsletter 2014
Cheshunt Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Clarence Park, St Albans H. Smith ‘Clarence Park, St Albans – a late-Victorian public park’ Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany 2007
Cole Green House & other Brown sites H. Leiper ‘Mr Lancelot Brown and his Hertfordshire clients’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
Danesbury Fernery J. Roper 'Recovering a Victorian Fernery' HGT Autumn Newsletter 2017
Digswell House, Digswell A. Rowe & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Digswell Park K. Harwood ‘Stone Age to Suburbia (The rise and fall of the Capability Brown landscape at Digswell)’ HGT Spring Newsletter 2016
Digswell Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Gobions or Gubbins, Brookmans Park A. Rowe & T. Williamson ‘New light on Gobions’ Garden History, vol. 40.1 2012
Gobions Wood J. Milledge ‘Gobions Wood – The most famous garden in Hertfordshire’ HGT Spring Newsletter 2013
Gobions Wood J. Milledge ‘Gobions Wood. An early eighteenth-century garden revealed’ The Association of Gardens Trusts 2013 Yearbook 2013
Gorhambury P. Henderson* ‘Sir Francis Bacon’s water gardens at Gorhambury’ Garden History vol. 20.2 1992
Gorhambury, St Albans D. Spring ‘The London connection: Gardens of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
Gorhambury, St Albans A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Grove, The, Watford T. Williamson ‘Gardens and industry: The landscape of the Gade valley in the nineteenth century’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
Grive, The, Watford J. Sloan & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Hadham Hall J. Milledge ‘Hadham Hall and the Capel family’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
Hadham Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Haileybury, Hertford Heath T. Parker ‘Humphry Repton at Haileybury? A new interpretation of the East India College Commission (1808-1811)’ HGT Autumn Newsletter 2014
Haileybury, Hertford Heath T. Parker & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Haileybury, Hertford Heath
T. Parker & K. Harwood (eds)
Structure and Landscape - William Wilkins and Humphry Repton at Haileybury 1806 - 1810 Hertfordshire Gardens Trust 2018
Haileybury T. Williamson 'Haileybury: A Reptom Landscape in Context' Structure and Landscape - William Wilkins and Humphry Repton at Haileybury 1806 - 1810 2018
Haileybury T. Parker 'Humphry Repton's landscape plans for Haileybury' Structure and Landscape - William Wilkins and Humphry Repton at Haileybury 1806 - 1810 2018
Haileybury T. Parker 'Thomas Barr's Flower Garden for Reverend Samuel Henley' Structure and Landscape - William Wilkins and Humphry Repton at Haileybury 1806 - 1810 2018
Haileybury  R. Guy Wilson 'East India College's radical campus and American connections' Structure and Landscape - William Wilkins and Humphry Repton at Haileybury 1806 - 1810 2018
Hamels, Braughing A. Rowe (ed.) Garden Making and the Freman Family: Hamels 1713-33 Hertfordshire Record Society 2001
Hanstead House, Bricket Wood K. Harwood ‘Money, Mills, Mares and Movies’ HGT Spring Newsletter 2013
Hatfield Parks A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Hemel Hempstead Water Gardens R. Gedye 'Summer Walks' HGT Autumn Newsletter 2018
Hemel Hempstead Water Gardens R. Gedye 'The Water Gardens of Geoffrey Jellicoe' HGT Spring Newsletter 2019
Hertingfordbury Park P. Bagenal Hertingfordbury Park and its links with the Bayfordbury estate Hertfordshire Gardens Trust (out of print) 2000
Hertingfordbury Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
High Canons J. Sloan 'The Gardens at High Canons' HGTY
High Leigh, Hoddesdon T. Rowland ‘High Leigh – How a ‘Friends Group’ could help in its Conservation’ HGT Autumn Newsletter 2016
Hilfield House, Aldenham A. Rayfield & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Hitchin Priory Park B. Howlett Hitchin Priory Park: the history of a landscape park and gardens Hitchin Historical Society 2004
Hunsdon House D. Spring ‘Researching Hunsdon and compiling a Local List entry’ HGT Autumn Newsletter 2015
Hunsdon Parks A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 20
Knebworth House A. Rowe A history of Knebworth’s Parks Hertfordshire Gardens Trust 2005
Knebworth Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Lamer, Wheathampstead L. Carlin 'Humphry Repton at Lamer and Shareloes' HGT Spring Newsletter 2018
Lamer House, Wheathampstead R. Beament, L. Carlin & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Lamer Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Little Court, Buntingford D. Kingham & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Marchmont House, Hemel Hempstead D. Willis & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Marshalswick, St Albans B. Adams, C. Ellis, E. Gardner & H. Leiper Marshalswick: The story of a house & its estate 2008
Moor Park, Rickmansworth A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
More, The, Rickmansworth A. Rowe ‘Hertfordshire’s lost water gardens 1500-1750’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
New Barnes, St Albans S. Pearson 'Humphry Repton and the Towgood family' HGT Spring Newsletter 2018
New Barnes, St Albans A. Fletcher, S. Pearson & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Newsells, Barkway E. Gatland ‘Richard Woods in Hertfordshire’ Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany 2007
Northaw House L. Carlin 'Northaw House' HGT Spring Newsletter 2019
Northaw Place A. Shellim ‘Return to Northaw Place’ HGT Autumn Newsletter 2015
Nyn Park, Northaw A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Offley Place, Great Offley A. Shellim, L. Carlin & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Organ Hall, Aldenham S. Pearson 'Humphry Repton and the Towgood family' HGT Spring Newsletter 2018
Organ Hall, Aldenham S. Pearson & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Panshanger, Hertford K. Harwood ‘Panshanger Park: history of the landscape’, Stile (local Ramblers’ journal, June 2014) 2014
Panshanger, Hertford A. Rowe ‘Panshanger Park needs YOU!’ HGT Autumn Newsletter 2016
Panshangar, Hertford A. Rowe & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Pendley Park, Tring A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Ponsbourne, Hatfield A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Popes, Hatfield A. Rowe ‘Hertfordshire’s lost water gardens 1500-1750’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
Popes, Hatfield A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Presdales, Ware T. Rowland ‘Presdales – My firsts research project’ HGT Spring Newsletter 2017
Queenswood School, North Mymms A. Shellim ‘Garden creation in wartime: the legacy of the Great War at Queenswood School’ Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany 2007
Quickswood nr Baldock C. Dalton ‘The gardens at Quickswood, the hunting lodge of the Earls of Salisbury’ Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany 2007
Rivers Nursery Orchard, Sawbridgeworth E. Waugh Rivers Nursery of Sawbridgeworth.  The art of practical pomology. Rivers Nursery Site & Orchard Group in assoc’n with Rockingham Press 2009
Roxford, Hertingfordbury P. Bagenal ‘A lost garden at Roxford’ Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany 2007
Sacombe Park J. Milledge ‘Sacombe Park, Hertfordshire: An Early Bridgeman Landscape’ Garden History vol. 37:1 2009
Sanders Orchid Nursery, St Albans H. Smith ‘A Victorian passion: the role of Sander’s orchid nursery in St Albans’ Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany 2007
Scott’s Grotto, Amwell House, Ware L. Clarke ‘The influences behind the creation of John Scott’s grotto’ Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany 2007
Shendish, King’s Langley T. Williamson ‘Gardens and industry: The landscape of the Gade valley in the nineteenth century’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
Stagenhoe, St Paul’s Walden L. Clarke ‘Glimpses of Edwardian country life’

HGT Spring Newsletter

The Gardens Trust CGT Yearbook 2016

2015

2016

St Albans Abbey S. Pearson ‘In a Monastery Garden’ HGT Spring Newsletter 2017
Tewin Water, Tewin A. Rowe & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Theobalds, Waltham Cross

M. Andrews*

D. Spring

‘Theobalds Place: The gardens and park’ Garden History vol. 21.2 1993

Theobalds

Theobalds Park

D. Spring

A. Rowe

‘The London connection: Gardens of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’

‘Hertfordshire’s lost water gardens 1500-1750’

Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012

Theobalds Park

A. Rowe

Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire

University of Herts Press 2019
Tring Park A. Fletcher ‘Charles Bridgeman at Tring Park: a reassessment’ Hertfordshire Garden History: A Miscellany 2007
Tring Park A. Rowe ‘The most spectacular rond-point in England? The restoration of part of Charles Bridgeman’s design for Tring Park, Hertfordshire’ HGT Spring Newsletter 2014
Tring Park A. Rowe ‘Spectacular 18th-century landscaping restored at Tring Park’ The Association of Gardens Trusts 2015 Yearbook 2015
Wall Hall, Aldenham K. Harwood &  T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Ware Park D. Spring ‘The London connection: Gardens of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’ Hertfordshire Garden History 2: Gardens pleasant, groves delicious 2012
Ware Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Woodhall, Watton at Stone R. Abel Smith ‘Woodhall’ HGT Autumn Newsletter 2015
Woodhall, Watton at Stone R. Abel Smith ‘Woodhall Park – An English Estate’ HGT Autumn Newsletter 2016
Woodhall Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Woodhill, S. Hatfield M. Jordan ‘Mystery at Woodhill’ HGT Spring Newsletter 2012
Woodhill, S. Hatfield M. Jordan 'Finding the Red Book for Woodhill' HGT Spring Newsletter 2018
Woodhill, S. Hatfield M. Stenning & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Wormleybury K. Harwood ‘A Hertfordshire garden in the eighteenth century. Sir Abraham Hume of Wormleybury, plant collector’ Herts Past & Present 3rd series, No. 2 2003
Wrotham Park nr Barnet A. Simpson ‘Wrotham Park – Brown, but not Brown?’ HGT Spring Newsletter 2016
Wyddial Hall A. & T. Moller & T. Williamson Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2018
Wyddial Park A. Rowe Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire University of Herts Press 2019
Youngsbury, High Cross T. Savile ‘Youngsbury – The most complete Brown Landscape Park in Hertfordshire’ HGT Spring Newsletter

2016

 

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’ (18th-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 21st 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