Stoke Edith Park, Hereford, England

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

A landscape park and grounds around a country house (destroyed 1927) with varying evidence for the successive schemes by George London, Humphry Repton, and William Andrews Nesfield.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

The village of Stoke Edith and Stoke Edith Park lie on the ground rising from the floodplain of the south bank of the River Frome. Passing the site is the main A438 from Hereford, around 9 kilometres to the west, and Ledbury, around 10 kilometres to the east. This forms part of the northern boundary of the registered park. Minor roads south off the A438 to Perton and to Tarrington mark the west and east sides of the park, which otherwise is defined by few definite topographical features. The registered area comprises around 180 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

P Reid, Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses: Volume II, Herefordshire etc. (1980), pp 57-9

Trans Woolhope Naturalists Field Club 43, (1980), pp 181-202

J Harris, The Architect and the British Country House 1620-1920 (1985), pp 98-9

Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 47, (1992), pp 210-36 and plates

S Daniels and C Watkins (editors), The Picturesque Landscape: Visions of Georgian Herefordshire (1994), pp 17, 21, 31, 82-3

C Ridgway (editor), W A Nesfield, Victorian Landscape Architect. Papers from the Bicentenary Conference 1994 (1996), pp 15-24

Maps

Plan of 1772, [reproduced in Daniels and Watkins (editors) (1994), p 31]

OS 6" to 1 mile: Herefordshire sheet 34 SE, 1st edition 1886

OS 25" to 1 mile: Herefordshire sheet 34.12, 2nd edition 1904

Description written: 1997

Edited: September 1999