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YGT wishes to engage a Membership and Communications/Administrative Officer to assist us in our task of increasing knowledge of and enthusiasm for Yorkshire’s wealth of historic gardens and designed landscapes.

Welcome to our new website! We hope you like it and find it useful. There's lots more about what we do and a new database of the historic parks and gardens in Yorkshire that we are dedicated to preserving for future generations.  

The Politics of Street Trees edited by Jan Woudstra and Camilla Allen. This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning,

Supported by a grant from the Yorkshire Gardens Trust  

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Grewelthorpe Primary wrote to us saying:

Enticing Paths, edited by Roger Last, looks at aspects of gardens and gardening in Norfolk over five centuries.

Patrick Eyres and Karen Lynch's wonderful book on the work of Humphry Repton is now available as a PDF.

Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society have completed a fascinating study of Aldby Park's mysterious earthwork.

This report shows how the historic environment of York, North Yorkshire and the East Riding can help achieve good growth.