What are the next steps in historic designed landscape designation?

Image of a lake and mature trees in a historic designed landscape

  The Gardens Trust is marking the 40th Anniversary of the 1983 national Heritage Act and the statutory measure to set up a Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest, a world -first in recognising the cultural importance of garden and landscape design and the need to protect it. At the core of […]

Mavis Batey Essay Prize awarded to Abigail Carr for essay on South Shields’ Marine Park

This year’s winner of the essay prize is Abigail Carr, who has recently completed the History of Medicine MA programme at Newcastle University, UK, for her entry: ‘”A park in which beauty and pure air could be united”: South Shields’ Marine Park and the Nineteenth-Century Conception of Health and Wellness.’ Within this essay she expertly […]