Flitwick Manor, Flitwick, Bedfordshire, England

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

Late 18th and early 19th century pleasure grounds and park, praised by J C Loudon, the setting for a small country house.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Flitwick Manor, occupying about 22 hectares, is located at the southern end of Flitwick, a small town in mid Bedfordshire, about 16 kilometres south of Bedford and 3.5 kilometres east of the M1. It is bounded by Church Road to the north, Westoning Road (A5120) to the south and east, and open farmland to the west. Shelter belts and plantations screen the boundaries to the west, north and south. The ground slopes gently from north-west to south-east.

REFERENCES

Gardeners' Magazine 3, (1827), pp 245-6, 258

Gardeners' Magazine 4, (1828), p 303 Gardeners' Magazine 5, (1829), pp 559-60

J C Loudon, Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum 4, (1838), p 2672

Gardeners' Magazine 19, (1843), p 641

J B Burke, Visitation 1, (1852), pp 8-9

B Jones, Follies and Grottoes (1974), p 286

Elwes and Henry, The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 4, (1910), p 794; 5, pp 1064, 1070, 1106

Bedfordshire Historical Records Society 66, (1987)

Maps

A True Mapp and Plott... George Lettin, 1717 (LL 17/338), (Bedfordshire Record Office)

A Map of the Parish of Flitwick... 1793, (Bedfordshire Record Office)

Estate Map, post 1798 (Bedfordshire Record Office)

Enclosure map of Flitwick parish, 1807 (MA 68), (Bedfordshire Record Office)

A Map or Plan of an estate belonging to George Brooks esq..., 1810 (LL 17/340), (Bedfordshire Record Office)

Description written: May 1998

Edited: September 1999