Witley Court, Droitwich, England

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

A landscape park, including improvements in the early 19th century by John Nash and G S Repton, and formal mid-19th-century gardens by W A Nesfield, associated with a country house which in the mid-19th century was among the most magnificent in England.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Witley Court lies south-east of the village of Great Witley and the A443 which runs through it, from Ludlow about 35 kilometres to the north-west to Droitwich about 15 kilometres to the east. The high ground of Abberley Hill rises to the north, and that of Woobury Hill to the west. The watercourses crossing and ponded within the park drain south-east to the River Severn, 5 kilometres to the east. The registered area comprises roughly 350 hectares.  

REFERENCES

Country Life, 117 (8 June 1945), pp 992-5; (15 June 1945), pp 1036-9

B Pardoe, Witley Court: Life and Luxury in a Country House (1986)

Witley Court, Great Witley, Worcestershire: Report on an Archaeological Landscape Survey, (City of Hereford Archaeology Unit 1994)

Witley Court, Worcestershire: A Landscape Survey of the Southern Parkland, (City of Hereford Archaeology Unit 1996)

Trans Worcestershire Archaeol Soc 15, (3rd Series), (1996), pp 283-303

Witley Court, guidebook, (English Heritage 1997 edn)