Tyringham, Newport Pagnell, England

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

A late 18th century landscape park, probably laid out by Humphry Repton about 1793, surrounding a late 18th century country house by Sir John Soane, with early 20th century formal gardens by C F Rees, about 1910, and Edwin Lutyens, 1924-1928. John Haverfield also advised on the layout when he visited with Soane in 1793.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Tyringham lies in rural north Buckinghamshire, 3 kilometres north-west of Newport Pagnell, and l kilometre north-east of the adjacent Gayhurst estate, in the low-lying, gently undulating valley of the River Great Ouse. The 95 hectare site is bounded to the south by the B526 from Newport Pagnell, and on the other sides by agricultural land, bisected from north to south by the lane from the B526 to the hamlet of Filgrave 1 kilometre to the north-east, and from east to west by the River Great Ouse which lies towards the south boundary. The setting is largely agricultural, with the ornamental parkland of the Gayhurst estate, and Gayhurst village, to the south-west.

REFERENCES

T Pennant, The Journey from Chester to London (1782)

O Ratcliff, Views of Olney and District (1906)

Country Life, 42 (29 December 1917), p 628; 65 (25 May 1929), pp 740(6; (1 June 1929), pp 780-786

Architectural Review, 65 (February 1929), pp 56-64

J Brown, Gardens of a golden afternoon (1982), pp 140-1

G Carter et al, Humphry Repton (1988), p 149

D Ottewill, The Edwardian Garden (1989), pp 196-8

N Pevsner and E Williamson, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire (1994), pp 703-6

Maps

Tithe map for Tyringham parish, 1838 (Buckinghamshire Record Office)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1885

    2nd edition published 1900

    3rd edition published 1926

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1881-1882

    2nd edition published 1900

Description written: 1997

Amended: April 1999

Edited: September 2000