Bedfordshire Gardens Trust
Garden
Researchers Wanted
Develop
your research skills and join the project to investigate and record the historic
gardens of Bedfordshire
There are over 100 historic parks and gardens in Bedfordshire,
from the rare survival of early 18th-century
formal gardens at Wrest Park to the modern work of Ian Hamilton Finlay in the
Improvement Garden
at Luton’s Stockwood Discovery Park.
By 2003 English Heritage had registered 19 of them, but little is known of many
of the others. The Bedfordshire Gardens Trust is currently recruiting garden
research volunteers to join a project to find out more about the gardens of
Bedfordshire.
Although previous research experience would be a bonus it is not
essential. An interest in historic gardens and an enthusiasm to learn more
about them is more important.
The Bedfordshire
Gardens Trust
The Bedfordshire Gardens Trust was founded in May 2004 to increase
awareness and appreciation of the County’s rich legacy of landscapes, parks and
gardens. All significant designed landscapes, gardens (large and smaller),
cemeteries, public parks and open spaces are of interest to the Trust.
As part of national umbrella organisation The Gardens Trust,
Bedfordshire Gardens Trust has an increasing involvement with local planning
proposals and with promoting the protection and conservation of historic parks
and gardens.
Our aim is to produce a report on each site – its history, its
present state and its significance – which can be put on record to help guide
planning and conservation decisions. In doing this we want to work with owners,
friends organisations and others.
If you are interested in helping us by becoming a garden research
volunteer please contact Jane Millership at millership35@btinternet.com
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