Londesborough Park, Market Weighton, England

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

Gardens laid out in the late 17th century wholly or partly by Robert Hooke for the 1st Lord Burlington, with alterations and additions by the 3rd Lord Burlington in the early to mid-18th century. Park with avenues of early 18th-century date with earlier origins. Kitchen garden of 1730-5 with cascades and entrances aligned with parkland avenues.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Londesborough Park lies immediately south of the village of Londesborough, about 1.5 kilometres north of Market Weighton. The roughly 200-hectare site is in a rural setting on the south-west edge of the Wolds on land which slopes down to the south and south-east to a valley, rising again on the south-east side. The boundary is fenced, apart from a stretch of walls and railings on the south-west side, where the boundary is formed by a by-road between Market Weighton and Londesborough. The boundary with the village to the north-west is largely walled, and fences separate the north, east and south sides from agricultural land. Included within the boundary is Londesborough Avenue which runs for a distance of about 2 kilometres from the west side of the pleasure grounds to the A1079 York road.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Knyff and Kip, Britannia Illustrata (1707) [engraving showing Londesborough from the west, around 1700]

Daniel Defoe, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain ii, (1724-6, revised edition 1962), p 234

D Neave, Londesborough (1977)

S Neave, Medieval Parks of East Yorkshire (1991), pp 42-3

D Neave and D Turnbull, Landscaped Parks and Gardens of East Yorkshire (1992), pp 48-54, 82

D Arnold, Belov'd by Ev'ry Muse Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington & 4th Earl of Cork (1694-1753) (1994), pp 21-8

N Pevsner and D Neave, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, York and the East Riding (1995), pp 603-5

Maps

T Pattison, Estate Map, 1739 (DDX 31/173), (East Yorkshire Record Office)

Map of Park and Garden Sketched from Mr Knowlton's Plan, January 1792 (EH file)

The Kitchen Garden at Londesborough sketched from a plan by Mr Knowlton Jny 1792 (EH file)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1854

1911 edition

Archival items

W Howard, sketch of House and eastern part of the gardens, 1802 (J21/4), (Castle Howard archives)

Description written: April 1998

Edited: November 1999