Easton Park, (also known as Easton Walled Gardens), Grantham, England

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

A 19th-century landscape park surrounding the remains of mid-19th-century formal terrace gardens.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Easton Park lies immediately west of the hamlet of Easton, 9.5 kilometres south of Grantham, 2.5 kilometres north of the village of Colsterworth, and immediately south-east of Stoke Rochford Hall (see description of this site elsewhere in the Register). The site is roughly triangular in shape. The west boundary runs contiguous to the Great North Road (A1) while the north boundary runs eastwards from the A1 as Easton Lane. From Easton Lane the east boundary runs south overlooking farmland to Easton hamlet then follows a path to Easton Farm and continues, abutting farmland, as the eastern boundary of Wellspring Plantation until it meets the Great North Road at the southern tip of the site. The site occupies a north to south ridge with a steep slope towards the west side of the site.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

E Turnor, Collections for the History of the Town and Soke of Grantham (1806), p 151

O Morris, Views of Country Seats III, (1866-80), p 74

W White, Directory of Lincolnshire, (1872)

Country Life, 11 (25 January 1902), pp 112-18

M Binney and A Hills, Elysian Gardens (1979), pp 48-9

N Pevsner et al, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (2nd edition 1989)

J Glenn, Easton Park, Lincolnshire (1995) [typescript report, copy on EH file]

H Thorold, Lincolnshire Houses (1999), pp 165-6

Maps

Edward Betham, The Lordship of Easton in the Soke of Grantham in the County of Lincoln 1808. Surveyed for the Commissioners of the Inclosure. [copy on EH file]

OS 6" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1905

Archival items

Conveyance of Easton Manor by Gilbert Bury Esquire to Sir H Cholmeley, 34 Elizabeth [1592] (private collection) 

Description written: June 2000

Edited: May 2002