Hatchlands, Guildford, England

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

Park with probably late 17th-century origins, improved following the commissioning of a Red Book from Humphry Repton in 1800, associated with a Grade I listed house. Its gardens and pleasure grounds include mid-18th-century features and a formal garden of 1900 by Gertrude Jekyll.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Hatchlands stands east of the village of East Clandon, and 7km east of Guildford. The land here registered, a roughly triangular area 1.5km from north to south, covers around 115 hectares. To the south the boundary is provided by Epsom Road, the A246 from Guildford to London. The other boundaries follow field edges, meeting at the northern tip of the park which abuts the London-Guildford railway. This defines what in the 19th and 20th centuries has been the principal parkland; it excludes land added to the park down its east side in about 1909 by H S Goodhart-Rendel. The topography of the parkland is not dramatic, although from its highest ground, south of Little Wix Wood, there are long views back to the house and notably northward towards Windsor and Slough.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

C Renow-Clark, Hatchlands: Restoration Scheme Research (report for the National Trust, 1992)

K Fretwell, Hatchlands: Park and Garden Survey (National Trust 1990)

J Lees-Milne, People and Places (1992) caption 14

Hatchlands Park (National Trust guidebook, 2002)

Maps

OS 25" to 1 mile: published 1870

OS 6" to 1 mile: published 1873, 1897, 1919

Various historic maps from the late 17th century onwards are reproduced in the two reports for the National Trust noted above.
 

Description written: March 2007