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Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England The Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England provides a listing and classification system for historic parks and gardens similar to that used for listed buildings. The register is managed by Historic England ...
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s, parks and gardens are graded on a scale: Grade I being internationally significant sites; these are therefore the most important and constitute around 10% of the total number. Historically important gardens are Grade II* (about 30% of the total), and the remainder are of regional or national importance and are Grade II registered. As with listed buildings, Registered Parks and Gardens can be searched on the
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(NHLE) website. Provided at the end of this page are those sites which were formerly listed, but have since been delisted.


Lists by region

* Listed parks and gardens in North East England * Listed parks and gardens in Yorkshire and the Humber


The sites (alphabetical)


Parks and gardens

* A la Ronde, Devon – Grade II *
Abberley Hall Abberley Hall is a country house in the north-west of the county of Worcestershire, England. The present Italianate house is the work of Samuel Daukes and dates from 1846 to 1849. Since 1916 it has been occupied by Abberley Hall School. It is a ...
, Worcestershire – Grade II * Addington Park, London – Grade II * Alexandra Park, Manchester – Grade II * Arley House, Worcestershire – Grade II * Bagthorpe Gardens, Nottingham – Grade II* * Barrington Court, Somerset – Grade II* *
Barrow Park Barrow Park is a 45-acre public park in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. It is located entirely within the Parkside ward, to which the park lends its name, bound by Abbey Road, Park Drive, Greengate Street and Park Avenue. Barrow Park was d ...
, Barrow-in-Furness – Grade II * Birmingham Botanical Gardens, West Midlands – Grade II* * Boultham Park, Lincoln – Grade II * Bridge End Gardens, Saffron Walden – Grade II* *
Broadway Broadway may refer to: Theatre * Broadway Theatre (disambiguation) * Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. ** Broadway (Manhattan), the street **Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...
, Letchworth – Grade II * Burslem Park, Stoke-on-Trent – Grade II* *
Canons Park Canons Park is a public park and the name of its surrounding residential area, in the Stanmore district of the London Borough of Harrow, north west London. Canons Park was a country estate which partially survives today as a public park. St. Law ...
, London – Grade II * Castle Park, Frodsham, Cheshire – Grade II *
Catton Park Catton may refer to: Places England * Catton, Derbyshire * Catton, East Riding of Yorkshire * Catton Grove Chalk Pit, Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Norfolk * Catton Hall, Country house in Derbyshire, England * Catton, North Yorksh ...
, Norwich – Grade II* * Caversham Court, Reading – Grade II * Caversham Park, Reading – Grade II * Chantry Park, Ipswich – Grade II
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* Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire – Grade II *
Clevedon Court Clevedon Court is a manor house on Court Hill in Clevedon, North Somerset, England, dating from the early 14th century. It is owned by the National Trust and is designated as a Grade I listed building. The house was built and added to over ma ...
, Somerset – Grade II* *
Cliveden Cliveden (pronounced ) is an English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire. The Italianate mansion, also known as Cliveden House, crowns an outlying ridge of the Chiltern ...
, Buckinghamshire - Grade I * Corporation Park, Blackburn – Grade II *
Cotehele Cotehele ( kw, Kosheyl) is a Medieval architecture, medieval house with Tudor architecture, Tudor additions, situated in the parish of Calstock in the east of Cornwall, England, and now belonging to the National Trust. It is a rambling granit ...
, Cornwall – Grade II* *
Cothelstone Manor Cothelstone Manor in Cothelstone, Somerset, England was built in the mid-16th century, largely demolished by the parliamentary troops in 1646 and rebuilt by E.J. Esdaile in 1855–56. It is closely associated with the Church of St Thomas of Ca ...
, Somerset – Grade II * The Courts Garden, Wiltshire – Grade II *
Crewe Hall Crewe Hall is a Jacobean mansion located near Crewe Green, east of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire,Pevsner & Hubbard, p. 22 it is listed at grade I. Built in 16 ...
, Cheshire – Grade II *
Croxteth Hall Croxteth Hall is a country estate and Grade II* listed building in the West Derby suburb of Liverpool, England. It is the former country estate and ancestral home of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton. After the death of the sevent ...
, Liverpool – Grade II *
Crystal Palace Crystal Palace may refer to: Places Canada * Crystal Palace Complex (Dieppe), a former amusement park now a shopping complex in Dieppe, New Brunswick * Crystal Palace Barracks, London, Ontario * Crystal Palace (Montreal), an exhibition building ...
, London – Grade II *
Cumberland Lodge Cumberland Lodge is a 17th-century Grade II listed country house in Windsor Great Park 3.5 miles south of Windsor Castle. Since 1947 it has been occupied by the charitable foundation known as Cumberland Lodge, which holds residential conferences ...
, Berkshire - Grade I * Derby Arboretum, Derby – Grade II* *
Dolphin Square Dolphin Square is a block of private flats with some ground floor business units near the River Thames in Pimlico, Westminster, London built between 1935 and 1937. Until the building of Highbury Square, it was the most developed garden square i ...
, London – Grade II *
Dulwich Park Dulwich Park is a public park in Dulwich in the London Borough of Southwark, south London, England. The park was created by the Metropolitan Board of Works from former farmland and meadows. While the initial design was by Charles Barry (juni ...
, London – Grade II *
Dunorlan Park Dunorlan Park is a park and grounds in Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK. Totalling approximately and containing a lake, the grounds were landscaped by Robert Marnock for Henry Reed, the merchant and philanthropist who owned the estate and the no ...
, Kent – Grade II * East Lambrook Manor, Somerset – Grade I * Easton Lodge Gardens, Essex – Grade II * Eaton Hall, Cheshire – Grade II* *
Englefield House Englefield House is an Elizabethan country house with surrounding estate at Englefield in the English county of Berkshire. The gardens are open to the public all year round on particular weekdays and the house by appointment only for large ...
, Berkshire - Grade II *
Exbury Gardens Exbury Gardens is a informal woodland garden in Hampshire, England with large collections of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, and is often considered the finest garden of its type in the United Kingdom. Exbury holds the national collectio ...
, Hampshire - Grade II* *
Forbury Gardens Forbury Gardens is a public park in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. The park is on the site of the outer court of Reading Abbey, which was in front of the Abbey Church. The site was formerly known as the Forbury, and one ...
, Reading – Grade II *
Frogmore Frogmore is an estate within the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. It comprises , of primarily private gardens managed by the Crown Estate. It is the location of Frogmore House, a royal retreat, and Frogmore Cottage. ...
, Berkshire - Grade I * Hanley Park, Stoke-on-Trent – Grade II* * Hartsholme Country Park, Lincoln – Grade II * Hazlegrove House Park and Garden, Somerset - Grade II *
Hedsor House Hedsor House is an Italianate-style mansion in the United Kingdom, located in Hedsor in Buckinghamshire. Perched overlooking the River Thames, a manor house at Hedsor can be dated back to 1166 when the estate was owned by the de Hedsor Family. ...
, Buckinghamshire – Grade II *
Heights of Abraham The Heights of Abraham is a tourist attraction in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England. It consists of a hilltop park on top of Masson Hill, accessed from the village by either the Heights of Abraham cable car or a steep zig-zag path. The heights ...
, Derbyshire – Grade II* *
Herstmonceux Castle Herstmonceux Castle is a brick-built castle, dating from the 15th century, near Herstmonceux, East Sussex, England. It is one of the oldest significant brick buildings still standing in England. The castle was renowned for being one of the fir ...
, Sussex – Grade II* * Hestercombe House, Somerset – Grade I * Hill Close Gardens, Warwick – Grade II* *
Holwood House Holwood House is a country house in Keston, near Hayes, in the London Borough of Bromley, England. The house was designed by Decimus Burton, built between 1823 and 1826 and is in the Greek Revival style. It was built for John Ward who later em ...
, London – Grade II *
Howard Park and Gardens Howard Park and Gardens is a public recreation ground in Letchworth, in Hertfordshire, England, laid out when the garden city of Letchworth was created. It is listed Grade II in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens. History The park ...
, Letchworth – Grade II *
Iford Manor Iford Manor () is a manor house in Wiltshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building sitting on the steep, south-facing slope of the Frome valley, in Westwood parish, about southwest of the town of Bradford-on-Avon. Its Grade I registered ...
, Wiltshire - Grade I * Kelston Park, Somerset – Grade II* *
Knebworth House Knebworth House is an English country house in the parish of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. Its gardens are also listed Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. In its surrounding park is t ...
, Hertforshire – Grade II* * Larmer Tree Gardens, Wiltshire – Grade II* *
Layer Marney Tower Layer Marney Tower is a Tudor palace, composed of buildings, gardens and parkland, dating from 1520 situated in Layer Marney, Essex, England, between Colchester and Maldon. The building was designated Grade I listed in 1952. History Constructe ...
, Essex – Grade II * Leonardslee, Sussex – Grade I * Lincoln Arboretum, Lincoln – Grade II *
Lyme Park Lyme Park is a large estate south of Disley, Cheshire, England, managed by the National Trust and consisting of a mansion house surrounded by formal gardens and a deer park in the Peak District National Park. The house is the largest in Ches ...
, Cheshire – Grade II* * Lytes Cary, Somerset – Grade II * Marston House, Somerset – Grade II * Milton Lodge, Somerset – Grade II *
Mote Park Mote Park is a multi-use public park in Maidstone, Kent. Previously a country estate it was converted to landscaped park land at the end of the 18th century before becoming a municipal park. It includes the former stately home Mote House tog ...
, Kent – Grade II *
Mount Edgcumbe House Mount Edgcumbe House is a stately home in south-east Cornwall and is a Grade II listed building, whilst its gardens and parkland are listed as Grade I in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. Mount Edgcumbe ...
, Cornwall – Grade I *
Newsham Park Newsham Park in Liverpool, England is a Victorian. To the east of it is the Canada Dock branch railway line, and to the north is West Derby Road. The park is protected as a Grade II* listed site. History The park was opened in 1868. In 1877, ...
, Liverpool – Grade II *
Nymans Nymans is an English garden to the east of the village of Handcross, and in the civil parish of Slaugham in West Sussex, England. The garden was developed, starting in the late 19th century, by three generations of the Messel family, and was br ...
, West Sussex – Grade II* * Orchardleigh Estate, Somerset – Grade II* * Oldbury Court Estate, Bristol – Grade II *
Plumpton Rocks Plumpton Rocks is a man-made lake and surrounding pleasure gardens south-east of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England, near the village of Plompton. The site is now operated as a tourist attraction by the owner, Robert de Plumpton Hunter. It ...
, North Yorkshire - Grade II* * Orpington Priory Gardens, London – Grade II * Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire – Grade II * Peover Hall, Cheshire – Grade II *
Poundisford Park Poundisford Park north of Pitminster, Somerset, England is an English country house that typifies progressive housebuilding on the part of the West Country gentry in the mid-16th century. The main house was built for William Hill around 1550 and h ...
, Somerset – Grade II * Port Eliot, Cornwall - Grade I * Porter Valley Parks, Sheffield – Grade II *
Prideaux Place Prideaux Place is a grade I listed Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England. It has been the home of the Prideaux family for over 400 years. The house was built in 1592 by Sir Nicholas Prideaux (1550–1627), a dist ...
, Cornwall – Grade II * Prior Park Landscape Garden, Bath – Grade I * Priory Park, Dudley – Grade II * Prospect Park, Reading – Grade II * The Quarry, Shrewsbury – Grade II *
Renishaw Hall Renishaw Hall is a country house in Renishaw in the parish of Eckington in Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building and has been the home of the Sitwell family for nearly 400 years. The hall is southeast of Sheffield, and north of R ...
, Derbyshire – Grade II* * Richmond Hill Terrace Gardens, London – Grade II* *
Royal Hospital Chelsea The Royal Hospital Chelsea is a retirement home and nursing home for some 300 veterans of the British Army. Founded as an almshouse, the ancient sense of the word "hospital", it is a site located on Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea. It is an ...
, London - Grade II * Royal Victoria Park, Bath – Grade II * Salle Park, Norfolk – Grade II * St Ann's Allotments, Nottingham – Grade II* *
St Paul's Walden Bury St. Paul's Walden Bury is an English country house and surrounding gardens in the village of St Paul's Walden in Hertfordshire. The house is a Grade II* listed, and the gardens Grade I. A home of the Bowes-Lyon family, it is possibly the site of ...
, Hertfordshire – Grade I * St Michael's Mount, Cornwall – Grade II * Stamford Park, Altrincham – Grade II * Stanley Park, Liverpool – Grade II * Stanmer Park, Sussex – Grade II * Stoke Park, Northamptonshire – Grade II *
Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens The Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens are memorial gardens in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England. The gardens are listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The gardens are adjacent to the Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges. The ...
, Buckinghamshire - Grade I * Stoney Road Allotments, Coventry – Grade II* * Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire - Grade I * Sydney Gardens, Bath – Grade II *
Tabley House Tabley House is an English country house in Tabley Inferior (Nether Tabley), some to the west of the town of Knutsford, Cheshire. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. I ...
, Cheshire – Grade II *
Tatton Park Gardens Tatton Park Gardens consist of formal and informal gardens in Tatton Park to the south of Tatton Hall, Cheshire, England (). Included in the gardens are an Italian garden, a walled garden, a rose garden, and the Japanese garden. The buildings ...
, Cheshire – Grade II* * Tintinhull Garden, Somerset – Grade II * Trent Park, London – Grade II * Turvey House and Gardens, Bedfordshire – Grade II *
Valentines Park Valentines Park is a park, south of Gants Hill, it is the largest green space in the London Borough of Redbridge. The park was originally the grounds of Valentines Mansion, a residence built in 1696. Valentines Park holds a Green Flag Award and ...
, London – Grade II * Victoria Park, Leicester – Grade II * Victoria Park, London - Grade II* *
Waddesdon Manor Waddesdon Manor is a English country house, country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. Owned by National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust and managed by the Rothschild Foundation ...
, Buckinghamshire - Grade I * Walpole Park, London – Grade II * Wandsworth Park, London – Grade II *
Wanstead Park Wanstead Park is a municipal park covering an area of about 140 acres (57 hectares), in Wanstead, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is also a district of the London Borough of Redbridge, which was in Essex until 1965. It is administered as p ...
, London – Grade II* * Warley Woods, West Midlands – Grade II * Wavertree Botanic Park and Gardens, Liverpool – Grade II *
West Park, Wolverhampton Formerly called the People's Park, Wolverhampton's West Park was opened on 6 June 1881. It is Grade II* listed in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens. Background The site chosen for the first of the large parks in Wolverhampton wa ...
– Grade II* *
West Wycombe Park West Wycombe Park is a country house built between 1740 and 1800 near the village of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It was conceived as a pleasure palace for the 18th-century libertine and dilettante Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Bar ...
, Buckinghamshire - Grade I * Westbourne Road Town Gardens, Birmingham – Grade II *
Westonbirt Arboretum Westonbirt, The National Arboretum is an arboretum in Gloucestershire, England, about southwest of the town of Tetbury. Managed by Forestry England, it is perhaps the most important and widely known arboretum in the United Kingdom. Planted ...
, Gloucestershire - Grade I *
Wightwick Manor The legacy of a family's passion for Victorian art and design, Wightwick Manor (pronounced "Wittick") is a Victorian manor house located on Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. Owned by the National Trust since 1937, the Mano ...
, West Midlands – Grade II *
Wimpole Estate Wimpole Estate is a large estate containing Wimpole Hall, a country house located within the civil parish of Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, England, about southwest of Cambridge. The house, begun in 1640, and its of parkland and farmland are owned ...
, Cambridgeshire - Grade I


Cemeteries

The total number of cemeteries included on the Register is around 110. These include: * Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington – Grade II * Allerton Cemetery, Liverpool – Grade II * American Military Cemetery, Cambridge – Grade II *
Anfield Cemetery Anfield Cemetery, or the City of Liverpool Cemetery, is located in Anfield, a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It lies to the northeast of Stanley Park, and is bounded by Walton Lane (A580 road) to the west, Priory Road to the south, ...
, Liverpool – Grade II *
Arnos Vale Cemetery Arnos Vale Cemetery () (also written Arno's Vale Cemetery), in Arnos Vale, Bristol, England, was established in 1837. Its first burial was in 1839. The cemetery followed a joint-stock model, funded by shareholders. It was laid out as an Arcadi ...
, Bristol – Grade II * Bath Abbey Cemetery, Bath – Grade II* * Beckett Street Cemetery, Leeds – Grade II* *
Brompton Cemetery Brompton Cemetery (originally the West of London and Westminster Cemetery) is a London cemetery, managed by The Royal Parks, in West Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Establ ...
, London – Grade II* *
Brookwood Cemetery Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London Necropolis, is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe. The cemetery is listed a Grade I site in the Regi ...
, Surrey – Grade I * City of London Cemetery, London – Grade II *
Golders Green Crematorium Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum was the first crematorium to be opened in London, and one of the oldest crematoria in Britain. The land for the crematorium was purchased in 1900, costing £6,000 (the equivalent of £135,987 in 2021), ...
, London – Grade II * Grove Park Cemetery, London – Grade II *
Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as ...
, London – Grade II* *
Kensal Green Cemetery Kensal Green Cemetery is a cemetery in the Kensal Green area of Queens Park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. Inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, it was founded by the barrister George Frederick ...
, London – Grade II* *
Key Hill Cemetery Key Hill Cemetery, ( OS grid reference SP059882), originally called Birmingham General Cemetery, is a cemetery in Hockley (the Jewellery Quarter), Birmingham, England. It opened in 1836 as a nondenominational cemetery (in practice nonconfor ...
, Birmingham – Grade II *
Nunhead Cemetery Nunhead Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London, England. It is perhaps the least famous and celebrated of them. The cemetery is located in Nunhead in the London Borough of Southwark and was originally known as All Saints ...
, London, formerly known as All Saints – Grade II* * Old & New Cemeteries, Ipswich – Grade II* * Reading Old Cemetery, Reading – Grade II *
Sheffield General Cemetery The General Cemetery in the City of Sheffield, England opened in 1836 and closed for burial in 1978. It was the principal cemetery in Victorian Sheffield with over 87,000 burials. Today it is a listed Landscape (Grade II*) on the English Herit ...
, Sheffield – Grade II * Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool – Grade II * Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford – Grade II *
West Norwood Cemetery West Norwood Cemetery is a rural cemetery in West Norwood in London, England. It was also known as the South Metropolitan Cemetery. One of the first private landscaped cemeteries in London, it is one of the " Magnificent Seven" cemeteries of ...
, London, formerly known as The South Metropolitan Cemetery – Grade II*


Delisted sites

* Philips Park, Bury – delisted 1999


References

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External links


Parks and Gardens Selection Guides
– gives detailed criteria for inclusion Heritage registers in England *