Investigate a local park or garden
Investigate a local park or garden
Exercise
Fill in the following questionnaire to describe one park or garden near where you live which you consider ‘old’:
Where can you find out more?
Search your local library, Lincoln Central Library and Lincolnshire Archives for local books, old newspaper cuttings and magazine articles.
Local history books:
Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 1 – 4 by T.R. Leach and R. Pacey
Lincolnshire Country Houses & Families: Part 1 & 2 by Terence R Leach
The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Penguin 1989) by N. Pevsner & J. Harris
Look to see if your chosen park or garden is featured. Note any recorded details and if so, whether they are dated.
Online:
If your choice of park or garden is listed on the National Parks & Gardens register, you will find more information here:
www.historicengland.org.uk
www.parksandgardensuk.org
www.imagesofengland.co.uk
www.slha.org.uk/publications/slha_books