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Hertfordshire Garden History - Volume 2

Gardens pleasant, groves delicious

Editor: Deborah Spring

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“This is thorough, well-illustrated with archive pictures, and of interest to readers way beyond Hertfordshire's boundaries.”


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About the book

This second volume of Hertfordshire garden history considers how Hertfordshire's historic parks and gardens – some still existing, many others lost – have been influenced by, and reflect, the social and economic history of their time.

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    Hertfordshire's proximity to London swiftly made the county into a place for both the display of success and respite from its demands.

    Beginning with the hunting parks and Renaissance gardens of the Bacons, Cecils and Capels in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and their gradual replacement by designed landscapes, the book shows how in Hertfordshire individuals have long sought greater space and comfort within easy reach of the capital.

    The theme continues through to successful Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian entrepreneurs and professionals seeking an idealised country existence while travelling daily to the City, culminating in the tree-lined legacy of the early garden cities.

    Lancelot 'Capability' Brown played a role in shaping the Hertfordshire landscape whilst in the nineteenth century industrial development made an impact.

    The Arts and Crafts movement brought contributions from famous designers Lutyens and Jekyll at Knebworth, and Mawson at Berkhamsted and Bushey. In parallel, services developed to supply the demand for elaborate gardens and the book also examines the role of plant nurseries, estate gardeners, and the Lea Valley glasshouses during the two world wars and beyond.

    Throughout the book, examples are drawn from both well known and less visible or vanished Hertfordshire gardens of the past 500 years.

    This volume draws on new research by members of the Hertfordshire Gardens Trust, whose director of research is Tom Williamson, Professor of Landscape History at the University of East Anglia.

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    Contents


     List of figuresix
     List of platesxiii
     Notes on contributorsxv
    1The London connection: Gardens of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
    Deborah Spring
    1
    2Hertfordshire’s lost water gardens 1500–1750
    Anne Rowe
    31
    3Hadham Hall and the Capel Family
    Jenny Milledge
    60
    4Mr Lancelot Brown and his Hertfordshire clients
    Helen Leiper
    92
    5Gardens and industry: The landscape of the Gade Valley in the nineteenth century
    Tom Williamson
    121
    6Some Arts and Crafts gardens in Hertfordshire
    Kate Harwood
    148
    7Planting the gardens: The nursery trade in Hertfordshire
    Elizabeth Waugh
    177
    8Salads and ornamentals: A short history of the Lea Valley nursery industry
    Kate Banister
    202
     Index231

  • About the Editor/s:

    Deborah Spring

    Deborah Spring originally studied social anthropology, later gaining an MA in garden history at Birkbeck, University of London, and a further MA in biography at the University of East Anglia. Formerly an academic publisher, she now researches and writes about history, with particular interest in women's history, the sixteenth century, gardens and landscapes.

ISBN: 978-1-907396-81-6 Format: Paperback, 272pp Published: Aug 2012

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