Since the creation of the Yorkshire Gardens Trust in 1996 more than 300 events have been organised for our members and guests. Here are some recent highlights...
For reports of earlier events please follow this link to earlier Newsletters
Lecture / Talk
Yorkshire's Designed Landscapes
- the Role of Early Yorkshire Nurseries
Week 3. 1 October: 'One of the first that brought our northern gentry into the method of planting and raising all kinds of forest trees, for use and ornament’: the role of early Yorkshire nurseries in northern plantations. Third of 4 online talks £8 each or all 4 for £28 (Gardens Trust and Yorkshire Gardens Trust Members £6 or £21)
Lecture / Talk
Gale Common Artificial Hill of Fly Ash
– a new landscape feature with Hal Moggridge
Week 2. 24 September: Gale Common Artificial Hill of Fly Ash – a new landscape feature. Second of 4 online talks £8 each or all 4 for £28 (Gardens Trust and Yorkshire Gardens Trust Members £6 or £21)
Lecture / Talk
The role of town memorials:
collective memory, counter-memory, and forgetting in Barnsley with John Land
First of 4 online talks £8 each or all 4 for £28 (Gardens Trust and Yorkshire Gardens Trust Members £6 or £21)
Day visit
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is situated in the designed landscape of Bretton Hall, pleasure grounds of the late 18th - and early 19th-century
Day visit
University of York - Campus West Walk
The important grade II University of York Campus West 20th century designed landscape incorporates the physical remains of the early 18th century gardens and planting associated with the 16th century hall.
Day visit
South Cliff Gardens, Esplanade, Scarborough
Commenced in 1837 as private gardens, South Cliff Gardens were significantly extended in 6 phases under differing ownership
Day visit
Evening Drinks Party Helmsley Walled Garden
Built in 1759 the kitchen garden for Duncombe Park gardeners would supply all the vegetables and flowers for the house for over 150 years
Day visit
Midsummer Picnic at Skipwith Hall
Skipwith Hall started life as a Jacobean farmhouse. It took shape as a Queen Anne manor house for the Parish of Skipwith around 1700
Day visit
Parcevall Hall Gardens
Parcevall Hall Gardens - our second visit this year to a garden created in the inter war years.
Day visit
Whinfell Quarry Garden and Whirlow Brook Park
A visit to two adjacent gardens in south west Sheffield which were both originally in private ownership