Twenty-four of the best post-war landscapes and gardens protected
In 2017 the Gardens Trust launched a crowd-sourced campaign, Compiling the Record, to identify overlooked but important landscapes designed between the mid 1960s and 1990. Our partners Historic England have now added twenty-four new entries to the National Heritage List for England, effectively doubling the number of post-war gardens and landscapes that are protected. Dominic […]
Developments at Shortgrove eroding Capability Brown landscape
The Gardens Trust and Essex Gardens Trust are concerned about the effect of a series of incremental developments at Shortgrove in the Uttlesford district of Essex. The historic landscape park of Shortgrove Hall was laid out by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown between the 1750s and 1770s and has mid-18th Century walled gardens further developed by William Chater […]