Brogyntyn, (also known as Porkington), Oswestry, England

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

Mid-19th-century terracing and formal gardens, and landscape park, forming the setting for a country house.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Brogyntyn Park lies immediately to the north-west of the town of Oswestry, the mansion house standing in the centre of its park, and enjoying extensive views particularly out to the east. The park, a roughly triangular tract of land, lies between Mount Road and Oakhurst Road, running north-west (to Rhydycroesau) and north (to Selattyn) out of Oswestry respectively, with Whitewell Lane (an unclassified road off Mount Road to Pant-glas) forming the west boundary. The registered area is roughly 230 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Montgomeryshire Collections 21, (1887), pp 89-102

S Leighton, Shropshire Houses Past and Present (1901), p 21

Country Life, 88 (3 August 1940), pp 109-10

T Mowl and B Earnshaw, Trumpet at a Distant Gate (1985), plate IX

J E Hanson, Brogyntyn Estate, Selattyn, Shropshire. From 1800 to 1900, (unpublished dissertation, around 1993) [copy held in Shropshire Records and Research Centre]

P A Stamper, Historic Parks and Gardens of Shropshire (1996), pp 60

Maps

Brogyntyn, 1800 (5553/164), (Shropshire Records and Research Centre)

C and J Greenwood, Map of Shropshire, 1827

Tithe map for Selattyn parish, 1840 (Shropshire Records and Research Centre)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1884

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1874

Illustrations

View of house, around 1760 [copy in Brogyntyn photographic file, Shropshire Records and Research Centre]

Archival items

Brogyntyn vouchers etc 1860s-70s (800, boxes 57-8), (Shropshire Records and Research Centre)