Gloucestershire is blessed with a bevy of historic gardens and estates,
with 50 sites included on English
Heritage’s Register of Parks and Gardens. In contrast, urban
designed landscape features (such as parks and cemeteries) are few, with
only one of each featuring on the same listing.
The wealth of the Cotswold wool trade, and the aesthetic hold its communities
exercised on the Arts and Crafts Movement, have indelibly shaped the majority
of the county's gardens. There are, nevertheless, other gems such as the
formal water gardens of Westbury Court in the Severn Valley and the bones
of Clanna’s sleeping 19th century woodland water garden in the Forest
of Dean.
The Trust will be watching to see which influences shape its gardens
in the 21st century as well as researching its considerable historic legacy.
For more information on some of Gloucestershire’s iconic gardens
click here.
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