Aynhoe Park, Banbury, England

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

Later 17th-century country house whose extensive formal gardens were largely removed after 1760 during improvements to the park by Lancelot Brown. Humphry Repton probably worked here in the 1790s.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

The village of Aynho lies 10 kilometres south-east of Banbury on the A41 from Banbury to Bicester (the Bicester Road), which bounds the park to the east and north. Aynho Park stands on the south side of the village, west of St Michael's church, on a ridge overlooking its park to the south. To the west the park is bounded in part by a turning off the A41, the boundary then running south by field edges to turn east along the north side of the village of Souldern. The area here registered is roughly 200 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

T Humphris, Garden Glory (1969)

N Cooper, Aynho (1984)

T Humphris, Apricot Village (1987)

E Cartwright-Hignett (editor), Lili at Aynho (1989)

H McKee and P McCulloch, Aynho Park 1696-1996, (Architectural Association dissertation 1996)

J Heward and R Taylor, The Country Houses of Northamptonshire, (RCHM(E) 1996), pp 72-9

B A Bailey (editor), Northamptonshire in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Drawings of Peter Tillemans and Others, Northants Record Soc 39 (1996), p 4

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1889; 3rd edition published 1923

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1900; 3rd edition published 1923

Description written: 1998

Edited: January 2000