Tottenham Park, Marlborough, England

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

Eighteenth- and 19th-century pleasure grounds set within a park laid out in the late 17th and 18th centuries and a forest dating back to the medieval period, with formal avenues and woodland rides, including work by Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington) of around 1721 and Lancelot Brown from 1764 to around 1770.
 

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Tottenham Park and Savernake Forest lie immediately to the south-east of Marlborough. To the west lies the A346, which runs south from Marlborough, and to the north the A4, London Road, which runs east from Marlborough. To the south lie the Kennet and Avon Canal and the railway between Frome and Great Bedwyn. To the north-east the site is bounded by farmland and to the south-east by Bedwyn Common and Stock Common. The site of roughly 1600 hectares comprises walled and ornamental gardens, parkland, and woodland.
 

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

J P Neale, Views of the Seats etc. 5, (1822)

Gardener's Magazine 7, (1831), pp 136-9; 10, (1834), pp 413-19

The Florist, (September 1854), p 273

The Scottish Gardener 3, (1854), pp 311-13

Marquess of Ailesbury, A History of Savernake Forest (1962)

Country Life, no 22 (28 May 1987), pp 132-3

N Pevsner and B Cherry, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire (2nd edn 1975), pp 527-9

D Stroud, Capability Brown (2nd edn 1975), pp 92-5

T Hinde, Capability Brown (1986), pp 107-12

In Search of English Gardens: The Travels of J C Loudon and his wife Jane (National Trust Classics 1990), pp 137-9

Tottenham Park, Pleasury and Deer Park, History and Planning Restoration Strategy, (Colvin and Moggridge 1993)

John Harris, The Artist and the Country House (1995)

Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire XVI, (1999)

Tottenham Park, Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, Historic Landscape Survey, (Parklands Consortium 2000)

Maps

Map of Savernake Park and Forest showing the perambulation of 1301, late 16th to early 17th century (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office)

C Price, An Accurate Survey of Savernake Great Park, 1716 (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office)

C Price, An Accurate Survey of Tottenham Park for the Hon Charles, Ld Bruce, 1718 (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office)

Plan of Totenham Park in the County of Wilts, c 1730-40 (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office)

Andrews and Drury, Map of Wiltshire, 1773 (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office)

A Plan of the Forest of Savernake and of Tottenham Park in the County of Wiltshire, 1786 (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office)

Plan of Tottenham Park and Savernake Forest, c 1800 (private collection)

Survey of the pleasure grounds at Tottenham Park, after 1818 (private collection)

T J Turnbull, Survey of the pleasure grounds at Tottenham Park, around 1820-5 (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office)

C Greenwood, Map of Wiltshire, 1820 (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office)

Survey of Tottenham Park, around 1843-5 (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office) 

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1884/6

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1901; 3rd edition published 1926

Illustrations

P A Rysbrack, Bird's-eye view of Tottenham House, after 1737 (private collection) [in Harris 1979]

P A Rysbrack, View of the garden front of Tottenham House from the Exedra lawn, around 1750 (private collection) [in Harris 1979]

Archival items

Sketch, annotated on the reverse: 'Sketch by Mr Hoare of what He understood to be Mr Brown's idea for improvements in the Forest so as to make it one great whole', around 1763 (1300/1933), (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office)

Designs for gates in Tottenham Park, nd (9/35/60), (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office)

Architectural drawing of the Banqueting House designed by Lord Burlington, before 1730 (1300/361), (Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office)

Aerial photographs of Tottenham Park and Savernake Forest, 8 March 1944 (US/7PH/GP/Loc209), (NMR, Swindon)