Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, England

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

Formal gardens, pleasure grounds and a landscaped park with work by Lancelot Brown, Sir Charles Barry and W A Nesfield associated with a now largely demolished country house.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Trentham Gardens and Pleasure Grounds lie west of Trentham village, on the southern fringe of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Running north/south down the east side of the Gardens is the River Trent. To the east the park is bounded by the A34, to the north by the minor Whitmore Road, while to the west the park abuts the M6 motorway. The southern boundary of the park follows field edges north of Beech Lane. The registered area is roughly 450 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Trentham and Its Gardens (1857)

Country Life, 3 (5 March 1898), pp 272-5; (12 March 1898), pp 304-7; 18 (16 December 1905), pp 880-2; 143 (25 January 1968), pp 176-80; (1 February 1968), pp 228-31; (8 February 1968), pp 282-5; no 19 (9 May 1996), pp 68-71

D Stroud, Capability Brown (1975), pp 149-51, 180, 207, 243, pls 48a & b

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1889-90

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published around 1880

Archival items

Barry drawings for Trentham, (Stoke on Trent Museum)
 

Description written: July 1997

Edited: September 1999