Sheffield Botanical Gardens, South Yorkshire, England

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

Botanical gardens laid out 1834-6 by Robert Marnock with contemporary conservatories by B B Taylor.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

The Botanical Gardens are situated about 2 kilometres south-west of Sheffield city centre in a residential area. The roughly 8 hectare site is on land which slopes down to the south-east towards Sharrow Vale and the boundaries are formed by Clarkehouse Road to the north, Botanical Road to the west, gardens backing from Wigfull Road and Thompson Road to the south, and gardens backing from Southgrove Road to the east. The boundaries are generally walled and those parts dividing the site from roads have walls surmounted by railings.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Floricultural Magazine 1, (1836) (quoted in SAC 1982, pp 5-7)

N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire The West Riding (1967), p 465

K Lemmon, The Gardens of Britain 5, (1978), pp 139-45

Sheffield Art Report (SAC), (Sheffield Society for the Encouragement of Art 1982), pp 3-12

A Strategy for the Heritage Parks and Green Spaces of Sheffield, (Sheffield City Council 1996), pp 163-7

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1851

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1890

OS 5' to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1851

Archival items [quoted in J Carder's article in the Sheffield Art Report (1982)]

Prospectus of the Sheffield Botanical and Horticultural Society, 1833

Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments, Sheffield Collection  

Description written: June 1998