Tring Park in 1719 with some later alterations

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

1. The Landscape of West Hertfordshire

2. Parks and Gardens before the Eighteenth Century

3. Early Eighteenth-Century Landscapes

4. The Age of the Landscape Park

5. Picturesque and Gardenesque

6. High Victorian Landscapes

7. The Late Nineteenth Century and Beyond

List of Illustrations

Bibliography

Index

This is a well produced book with plenty of excellent maps and photographs supported by a well researched text. It is a must if you are interested in the parks and gardens which once surrounded (and in some cases still do) the larger houses in the west of the county. It contains a very useful bibliography. I am sure I will often be making reference to it when questions about the houses come up.

1, Beechwood; 2, Stocks, 3, Ashridge; 4, Gaddesden Hoo; 5, Golden Parsonage; 6, Tring Grove; 7, Gaddesden Place; 8, Tring Park; 9, Champneys; 10, Northchurch Hall; 11, Berkhamsted Place; 12, Amersfort; 13, Woodcock Hill; 14, The Kraal; 15, Gadebridge Park; 16, Rossway; 17, Kilfilan; 18, Berkhamsted Hall; 19, Haresfoot; 20, Ashlyns Hall; 21, Westbrook Hay; 22, Shendish, 23, Abbot's Hill; 24, Chipperfield Manor; 25, Kings Langley Park; 26, Abbots Langley Manor; 27, Callipers Hall; 28, Langleybury; 29, Munden House; 30, The Grove; 31, Russells; 32, Wall Hall; 33, Edge Grove; 34, Bushey Hall (1); 35, Kendals Hall; 36, Cashiobury; 37, Bushey Hall (2); 38, Aldenham House; 40, Rickmansworth Park; 41, Moor Place; 42, Oxhey Place; 43, Bushey House.