Miserden Park, (also known as Misarden Park), Stroud, England

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

Largely 20th-century gardens in framework of 17th-century date associated with 17th-century and later country house, encompassed within probably 17th-century deer park.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Miserden Park stands on the north-east side of the small village of Miserden, spectacularly sited on the west side of the valley of the River Frome. Miserden is reached by unclassified roads, and although the A417 from Cirencester to Gloucester passes 4 kilometres to the east the village is relatively isolated. Stroud lies around 12 kilometres to the west. The area here registered is roughly 100 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

R Atkyns, The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire (1712), plate following p 50

Victoria History of the County of Gloucestershire XI, (1976), pp 49-50

D Verey, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire The Cotswolds (2nd edition 1979), p 322

J Sales, West Country Gardens (1981), pp 90-2

N Kingsley, The Country Houses of Gloucestershire, Volume One, 1500-1660 (1989), pp 133-4

Country Life, no 10 (5 March 1992), pp 60-3

Miserden Park, guide leaflet, (1999)

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1881-2, published 1884 

Description written: March 1999

Amended: May 2001

Edited: April 2003