Trust Publications
Hertfordshire Garden History: a miscellany (2007)
Edited by Anne Rowe
A book of essays written by Members of HGT's Research Group and Conservation Team with an introductory chapter by Professor Tom Williamson, Chair in Landscape History at the University of East Anglia
Essays include:
- The 17th Century garden of the Earls of Salisbury at Quickswood
- A reappraisal of the work of Charles Bridgeman at Tring Park
- The Influence of the East India Company on Hertfordshire Gardens
- The landscapes designed by Richard Woods at Brocket Park and Newsells Bury
- A 'lost' 18th Century garden at Roxford
- The influences behind the creation of John Scott's grotto at Ware
- The famous Victorian orchid nursery of Frederick Sander
- The creation of Clarence Park in St Albans
- The work of the Pulham family in the l9th and early 20th Centuries
- The effects of wartime shortages on the creation of the gardens at Queenswood School
To buy a copy of Hertfordshire Garden History: A miscellany go to http://www.herts.ac.uk/UHPress/ and click on the link to Hertfordshire Publications
A history of Knebworth's Parks (2005)
Anne Rowe, The Herfordshire Gardens Trust
Research by Anne Rowe into the landscape of the parish reveals the existence at different times of no fewer than three parks at Knebworth. This well illustrated narrative reveals the locations of the two medieval parks and then describes the development of the Knebworth Park which replaced them, from the l7th Century to the present day.
To buy a copy of this book send a cheque for £5.00 (£3.50 plus £1.50 p&p) made payable to Anne Rowe, 8 Hamels Mansion, Knights Hill, Buntingford SG9 9NA.
The Parks and Gardens of West Hertfordshire (2000)
Tom Williamson and the Hertfordshire Gardens Trust
This book represents the results of investigations of historic landscapes west of a line drawn along the old Watling Street (the A5) as far north as the M25, then along the M25 to the M1 and then as far north as the county boundary. This district has a certain topographical coherence. It represents in effect the towns of Berkhamsted, Hemel Hempsted, Watford and Rickmansworth and the parishes and their hinterlands. It embraces the valleys of the Gade and Bulbourne and that of the lower Colne.
Several country houses around which the most extensive designed grounds were laid out were demolished in the last century and where they do survive, they are now mostly used as schools, conference centres and hotels with golf courses, playing fields and farms. Neverthless we discovered examples of the work of some of the greatest English garden designers – Charles Bridgeman, Capability Brown, Humphry Repton, Edward Kemp and Thomas Mawson.
Some 42 gardens in all are featured taking the reader through from gardens before the 18th Century, early 18th Century landscapes, the age of the landscape park, picturesque and gardenesque, high Victorian landscapes and the late 19th Century and beyond. The book is 118 pages long and is filled with beautiful black and white and colour photographs.
To buy a copy of this book, send a cheque for £14.00 (£12 plus £2.00 p&p) made payable to Herfordshire Gardens Trust to: Hertfordshire Gardens Trust, c/o Gardens, Ashridge, Berkhamsted , HP4 1NS
Hertfordshire Gardens on Ermine Street (1996)
Richard Bisgrove and The Hertfordshire Gardens Trust
The Trust's first publication and the story of some great gardens along Ermine Street (the A10) featuring designers such as Humphry Repton, Capability Brown and more recent designers such as Brenda Colvin. There is a gazetteer of over 100 gardens with descriptions and synopses of some of the more important gardens such as Haileybury – and the East India Company, Hertford Castle, Hamels, Julians Park – described in the l930s as one of the most beautiful in the country, Wormley Bury and Youngsbury.
To buy a copy of this book, send a cheque for £4.50 (£3.00 plus £1.50 p&p) made payable to Hertfordshire Gardens Trust to Hertfordshire Gardens Trust, c/o Gardens, Ashridge, Berkhamsted, HP4 1NS