Moccas Court, Moccas, Herefordshire, England

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

A deer park and separate late 18th- and early 19th-century landscape park associated with a country house, Lancelot Brown and Humphry Repton both proffering schemes and advice for the improvement of the latter although the degree of their implementation is uncertain.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Moccas Court lies on the south bank of and overlooking the River Wye, about 17 kilometres west of Hereford and about 13 kilometres south-east of Hay-on-Wye. The parkland extends both sides of the river although principally to the south where the deer park lies on the high ground of the ridge which separates the Wye from the River Dore. The registered area is roughly 300 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

W Plomer (editor), Kilvert's Diary (1944), pp 283, 304-5

D Stroud, Capability Brown (1975), pp 233-4, plate 58

Country Life, 160 (18 November 1976), pp 1474-7; (25 November 1976), pp 1554-7

R Sidwell, West Midland Gardens (1981), pp 69-70

G Carter et al, Humphry Repton (1982), p 153

Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 47, (1992), p 227

Moccas Court, Herefordshire: notes on the landscaping of the deer park, (Debois Landscape Survey Group report to English Nature, May 1993)

Moccas Court, Herefordshire: notes on the landscaping of the deer park above the bracken line, (Debois Landscape Survey Group report to English Nature, December 1993)

S Daniels and C Watkins, The Picturesque Landscape (1994), p 84

Garden History 22, (1994), p 173

S Seymour, S Daniels and C Watkins, Estate and Empire: Sir George Cornewall's Management of Moccas, Herefordshire, and La Taste, Grenada, 1771-1819, Dept of Geography, University of Nottingham, Working Paper 28 (1994) [copy in Herefordshire Record Office (BK37)]

P T Harding and T Wall, An English Deer Park, forthcoming

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: Herefordshire sheet 31 NE, 1st edition 1886; sheet 31 SE, 1st edition 1886; sheet 32 NW, 1st edition 1886; sheet 32 SW, 1st edition published 1886

OS 25" to 1 mile: Herefordshire sheet 32.5, 2nd edition 1904

Archival items

The Moccas Collection ((Herefordshire Record Office): including account book 1777-85, with payments re improvements to park and gardens (J56/IV/E); Estate map, 1772 (C62/1); Sale particulars (AW47/14); Deeds and papers (DF93). 

Description written: 1997

Edited: August 1999