Edgbaston Hall, Edgbaston, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

A landscape park improved following submission of a scheme by Lancelot Brown in 1776 associated with a country house.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Edgbaston Hall stands about 4km south of the centre of Birmingham. To the south the park is bordered by the A38 Birmingham to Bromsgrove road and to the north and west by Edgbaston Park Road or houses along it. To the east it is bounded by Priory Road (the B4217), part of the old road from Birmingham to Worcester (turnpiked 1726) before the route was altered in the early 1770s to run along the line of the modern Bristol Road. Sir Harry's Road was then cut to provide access from the turnpike road to Edgbaston Hall and church. Beyond the south-west section of the park is the University of Birmingham. The registered area is around 47 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

W Dugdale, Antiquities of Warwickshire II, (1730), pp 894-6 and figure

The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire 7, (1964), pp 67-8, 266

D Stroud, Capability Brown (1975), p 224

P Heath, Towards One Hundred Years. Edgbaston Golf Course 1896-1986, (privately printed 1986)

Maps

Beilby, Knott & Beilby, Map of Birmingham, 1828

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1890; 2nd edition published 1904; 3rd edition published 1917; 1945 edition

Archival items

The following are held at Birmingham Reference Library: maps of Edgbaston Hall and demesnes 1701, 1718, 1787; Calthorpe estate records including (box 3) building accounts of 1750s; list of documents relating to Edgbaston Hall and Park (around 1997 in connection with a Lottery Bid)
 

Description written: 1997

Edited: October 1999