SOURCES FOR GARDEN HISTORY RESEARCH
Association of Gardens Trusts
70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ
Tel: 020 7251 2610 : email: :
Links to all county gardens trusts.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Digitised journals.
British Library
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Tel: 0843 208 1144 or 01937 546060
Email: :
Census
Ancestry: Find my past: (available in libraries and record offices. Pay to view at home but free trials).
FreeCen:
Cornwall Record Office
Old County Hall, Truro, Cornwall TR1 3AY
Tel: 01872 323127 email: :
Country Life Picture Library
Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark Street, London SE1 0SU
Tel: 020 3148 4474 Email: :
Dartington Hall Trust Archive
The Elmhirst Centre Dartington Hall Totnes TQ9 6EL Tel: 01803 847000
held at the Devon Heritage Centre but listed on website.
Devon Archaeological Society
c/o Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3RX
Email: :
The Devon & Exeter Institution Library
7 Cathedral Close, Exeter, Devon. EX1 1EZ. Tel: 01392 251017
Assistant Secretary 01392 274727 : The Library holdings are incorporated into the University of Exeter Library online searchable catalogue
Holder of nineteenth and twentieth century local newspapers and directories.
Devon Gardens Trust
Northernhay Office, Exeter Community Centre, St David’s Hill, Exeter EX4 3RG
Tel: 01404 812112: email: :
DGT Archives and Library(Held in Devon Heritage Centre or Exeter Community Centre, for reference in situ not loan: permission needed to view archives. Contact Clare Greener: 26 Linden Road, Dawlish, EX7 9QA:
Devon Heritage Centre
Great Moor House, Bittern Road, Sowton, Exeter EX2 7NL. Tel: 01392 384253
Email :
Devon Rural Archive
Shilstone, Modbury, Devon PL21 0TW. Tel:01548 830832: email:
Dorset History Centre
Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1RP Tel: 01305 250550.
Email: :
English Heritage Archive
Formerly National Monument Record, The Engine House,Fire Fly Avenue, Swindon SN2 2EH.
Tel: 01793 414600 Email: :
Aerofilms collection, sorted by county for England.
Also Heritage Gateway, HELM, Images of England and eritage Heritage List. Tel: 01793 414700
Email:
English Heritage, South-West Region
(Covering: Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Isles of Scilly, Somerset, Wiltshire).
English Heritage, 29 Queen Square, Bristol, BS1 4ND: Tel: 0117 975 0700.
Email: :
Exeter Cathedral Library and Archives
Tel: 01392 421423 : email: :
Exeter Central Library
Castle Street, Exeter, EX4 3PQ.Tel: 01392 384218 or 0834 1551001.
See devon.gov.uk for online resources which include Times Digital Archive, Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post, Oxford English Dictionary
Exeter University Special Collection
Forum Library, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4PT Tel: 01392 723867
Email: :
Friends of Devon’s Archives
c/o Devon Heritage Centre, Great Moor House, Bittern Road, Sowton, Exeter, EX2 7NL
Garden History Museum
5 Lambeth Palace Rd, London SE1 7LB. Tel: 020 7401 8865:
Exhibitions Curator Russell Clark (Ext.*824) :
Garden History Society
70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ. Tel: 020 7608 2409.
Email: :
Libraries at University of York, King’s Moor Building, Exhibition Square, York YO1 7EP.
Tel: 01904 320000, and University of Bath, University of Bath Library, Bath, Somerset BA2 7JP.
Georgian Group
6, Fitzroy Square, London W1T 5DX
Tel: 020 7529 8920: email: :
Google Books (digitised books and journals)
Google books: books.google.com
Historic Environment Record
Devon: Historic Environment Service, Lucombe House, County Hall, Exeter EX2 4QD
Tel: 01392 382246: email: :
Somerset: Somerset Heritage Centre, BrunelWay, Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton TA2 6SF
Tel: 01823 347431:
Historical Directories of England and Wales
Digital Humanities and Special Collections, David Wilson Library, University of Leicester, PO Box 248,University Road, Leicester LE1 9QD. Tel:T: 0116 229 2056
Email: :
Linnean Society of London
Burlington House, Picaddilly, London W1V 0LQ
Tel: 020 7434 4479
Eighteenth and early nineteenth century material includes prints, watercolours and sketches.
MAGIC
Natural England, 4th Floor, 25 Queen Street, Leeds LS1 2TW
For information on statutorily designated assets such as Scheduled Monuments and Registered Parks and Gardens.
Museum of English Rural Life
University of Reading, Redlands Road, Reading RG1 5EX. Tel: 01183 788660
Email: :
The National Archives
Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU. Tel: 020 8876 3444: email:
National Trust
NT Images Tel: 01793 817700 Email:
NT Libraries and collections Email: libraries@nationaltrust,org.uk :
Newspapers
Times Digital Archive and Nineteenth Century Newspapers online. Available free at DHC or via library website. ‘Library Catalogue’ ‘Online Resources’ [a library card and a pin number needed to access on a home computer].
Index and filmed copies of Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post in Devon Heritage Centre.
See Findmypast for Exeter & Plymouth Gazette 1827-1950, Western Morning News 1922-1950, Western Mail 1869-1900.
British Newspaper Archive
North Devon Record Office
Library and Record Office, Tuly Street, Barnstaple EX31 1EL.Tel: 01271 388607/8
E-mail:
North Devon Archaeological Society
Secretary:John :
Parish Registers
Registers and microfiche copies at Devon Heritage Centre, North Devon Record Office, Plymouth & West Devon Record Office and at Service Points. For a list go to devon.gov.uk/family_history_3/parish_registers
Devon County Council, Topsham Road, Exeter EX2 4QDTel: 0845 155 1015: Email:
Parks and Gardens UK
25 Big Green, Warmington, Northamptonshire PE8 6TU.Email:
Plant Heritage Devon
Group Secretary: Caroline Stone, 01566 785706 Email:
Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
3 Clare Place, Coxside, Plymouth PL4 0JW
Tel: 01752 305940:email: :
Postcards
The Francis Frith Collection, Oakley Business Park, Dinton, Salisbury SP3 5EU
01722 716376
Nigel Temple Postcard Collection –
Devon Gardens Trust have copies of Devon postcards from this collection.
RHS Lindley Library
80 Vincent Square, London SW1P 2PE. Tel: 0845 260 5000 :Email:
RHS Rosemoor Garden and Library
Tel: 01805 624067 : Email:
Sale Catalogues of Estates and Properties
Devon Gardens Trust Listing available on request.
Somerset Heritage Centre
Brunel Way, Langford Mead,Norton Fitzwarren,Taunton TA2 6SF
Tel: (enquiries) 01823 278805 (appointments) 01823 337600
Email: :
Veitch
Caradoc Doy,
PO Box 28, Topsham, Exeter, Devon, EX3 0WY
Tel: 01392 877225. Email::
Victorian Society
1 Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT. Tel: 020 8994 1019 : email:
West Country Studies Library
All resources now at Devon Heritage Centre
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Journals
(Available online at Google Books, some at University’s of Bath and York, some at DGT Office)
The Garden
Gardener’s Chronicle
Gardener’s Magazine (Loudon)
Gardener’s Magazine (Hibberd)
Hortus
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society
Country Life
Devonshire Association Transactions
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries
Devon Gardens Trust Journals 1-3
Devon Historian
Garden History Journal
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes
Historic Newspapers
Devon Weekly Times
Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post
The Times
The West Britain
The Western Times
Woolmer’s Exeter & Plymouth Gazette
Local and useful books
Anthony, John, Discovering Period Gardens (Shire, 1997)
Batey, Mavis, Regency Gardens (Shire, 1995)
Bisgrove, Richard, The National Trust Book of the English Garden (Penguin, 1992)
Brown, Jane, The Pursuit of Paradise: A Social History of Gardens and Gardening (Harper Collins 1999)
—— The Modern Garden(Princetown Architectural Press, 2000)
Campbell, Susan, Walled Kitchen Gardens (Shire, 1998)
—— A History of Kitchen Gardening (Frances Lincoln, 2005)
Campbell-Culver, Maggie, The Origin of Plants (Headline, 2000)
Cherry, Bridget & Pevsner, Nikolaus, Devon 2nd edn (London, 1999)
Chope, R. Pearse, Early Tours in Devon and Cornwall, (Newton Abbot, 1967)
Conway, Hazel, Public Parks (Shire, 2006)
Craddock, J. P. Paxton’s Protégé: The Milner White Landscape Gardening Partnership (John Craddock, 2012)
Currie, C., Garden Archaeology, A Handbook (Council for British Archaeology, 2005)
Desmond, Ray, A Bibliography of British Gardens (1984)
Donn, B, A Map of the County of Devon(1765), facsimile edn. (Devon and Cornwall Record
Society and University of Exeter, 1965)
Eburne, Andrew & Taylor, Richard, How to Read an English Garden (London, 2006)
Elliott, Brent, Victorian Gardens (London, 1986)
—— The Country House Garden: From the Archives of Country Life 1897-1939 (London, 1995)
Fletcher, Ronald, The Parkers at Saltram 1769-8: Everyday Life in an Eighteenth-century House
(London, 1970)
Fraser, I., The Palk Family: Haldon House & Torquay (Newton Abbot, 2008)
Grant, Fiona, Glasshouses (Shire, 2013)
Gray, Todd, The Garden History of Devon: An illustrated guide to sources (Devon, 1995)
—— Devon Country Houses and Gardens Engraved: Volume One A-La-Ronde to Lifton Park (Exeter, 2001)
—— The Art of the Devon Garden (Exeter, 2013).
Gray, Todd and Rowe, Margery, eds., Travels in Georgian Devon Vol I-IV (Devon, 1997-2000)
Gordon Haynes, Landscape and Garden Design: Lessons from History(Whittles Publishing 2013)
Harvey, John, Medieval Gardens (B T Batsford, 1981)
Hemming, Jocelyn, The House that Richard Built: Six Centuries at Poltimore House (Poltimore House Trust, 2013)
Hooper, Arthur, Life in the Gardener’s Bothy (Suffolk, 2000)
Jacques, David, Georgian Gardens (Batsford, 1983)
Laird, Mark, The Flowering of the Landscape: English Pleasure Grounds 1720-1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press (1999)
Lambert, David, Goodchild, Peter and Roberts, Judith, Parks and Gardens: A researcher’s guide to
sources for designed landscapes 3rd edition (1995)
Lasdun, S., The English Park, Royal, Private and Public (Andre Deutsch, 1991)
Lauder, Rosemary,Vanished House of North Devon (1981)
——Vanished House of South Devon (Bideford, 1997)
Loudon, J. C., An Encyclopaedia of Gardening comprising the theory and practice of Horticulture,
Floriculture, Arboriculture and Landscape Gardening (London, 1822)
Mowl, Tim, Gentlemen and Players: Gardeners of the English Landscape (Sutton, 2000)
Musgrave, Toby, The Head Gardeners: Forgotten Heroes of Horticulture (London, 2007)
NCCPG (Devon Group), The Magic Tree: Devon Garden Plants History and Conservation (Devon,
1989)
Patrick, Judith, Walter Cave: Arts and Crafts to Edwardian Splendour (Phillimore, 2013)
Pattison, P., There by Design, Field Archaeology in Parks and Gardens (Archaeopress, 1988)
Polwhele, R.,The History of Devonshire, 3 vols (1793-1806)
Pugsley, Steven ed., Devon Gardens: An Historical Survey (Stroud, 1994)
Ravenhill, M. R. and Rowe, M. M. (eds.), Early Devon Maps (Devon, 2000)
—— Devon Maps and Mapmakers: Manuscript Maps before 1840 (Devon, 2002)
—— Maps of Georgian Devon (Devon, 2002)
Richardson, Tim, The New English Garden (Francis Lincoln, 2013)
Rutherford, Sarah, Georgian Garden Buildings (Shire, 2012)
Symes, Michael, A Glossary of Garden History 3rd edn.(Shire, 2006)
—— Garden Sculpture (Shire, 1996)
Synge, Patrick M., The Gardens of Britain 1: Devon and Cornwall (London, 1978)
Strong, Roy, The Renaissance Garden In England (Thames & Hudson, 1998)
——The Artist and the Garden (Yale University Press, 2000)
Tankard, Judith B., Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement (Abrams, New York, 2003)
Taylor, Patrick, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Garden (Oxford, 2006).
Turner, Tom, Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC-2000 AD (Spon Press, 2005)
Waymark, Janet, Modern Garden Design (Thames & Hudson, 1998)
White, William, History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Devon including The City of
Exeter 2nd edn, (Sheffield and London, 1850, 1878-9 and 1890)
Whittingham, Sarah, Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania (Francis Lioncoln, 2012)
Williamson, Tom, Polite Landscapes: Gardens & Society in Eighteenth-Century England (Sutton, 1998)
Wilson-North, Robert ed., The Lie of the Land: Aspects of the archaeology and history of the designed landscape in the South West of England (Exeter, 2003)
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