Rudding Park, Harrogate, England

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

Early 19th-century landscaped park, forming the setting for a country house, with mid-20th-century gardens by James Russell. Humphry Repton drew up a Red Book in 1790, but the exact extent of his contribution to the development of the site is unknown.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Rudding Park lies on the outskirts of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, immediately to the north-west of Follifoot village. It covers some 107 hectares and stands on the edge of the Pennine Range, with the land falling away to the east to Crimple Beck, beyond which are distant views over the Vale of York to York Minster. The A658 forms the south-east boundary, Rudding Lane wraps around the south-west and north-west boundaries, while the north-east faces onto farmland.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Peacock's Polite Repository (July 1792)

H Repton, Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (1794), pp 58-9

Country Life, 105 (4 February 1949), pp 254-7; (11 February 1949), pp 310-11; 149 (24 June 1971), pp 1592-4

D Stroud, Humphry Repton (1962), p 53

H Evans, Beautiful gardens of Britain (1974), pp 107-8

K Lemmon, Gardens of Britain 5, (1978), pp 106-10

G Carter et al, Humphry Repton (1982), p 164

Maps

Tithe map for Follifoot, 1848 (North Yorks Record Office)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1846-7

Archival items

Humphry Repton, Account Books (Norfolk County Record Office) 

Description written: January 2000

Amended: December 2004

Edited: April 2000