Broxwood Court, Broxwood, Hereford, England

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

Formal garden, avenue and woodland walks of around 1860 by W A Nesfield and park associated with a country house (now largely demolished) begun in 1858.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Broxwood Court lies one kilometre south-west of the hamlet of Lower Broxwood in west Herefordshire. Kington lies about 7 kilometres to the north-west, and Weobley about 5 kilometres to the south-east. The park is bounded to the east by a minor road from Woonton Ash to Whitehill, and to the west by the A480 Kington to Hereford road. The house faces roughly west, although the main view from the front of the house is south, towards the River Wye and the Black Mountains beyond. The registered area is around 63 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

P Reid, Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses: Volume II, Herefordshire (1980), p 10

A S Gray, Edwardian Architecture (1985), pp 337-42

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: Herefordshire sheet 18 SW, 1st edition 1886

OS 25" to 1 mile: Herefordshire sheet 8.10, 2nd edition 1904

Archival items

Estate sale particulars, 1919 (K88/6), (Herefordshire Record Office)

Photographs and plans (private collection) 

Description written: 1998

Edited: August 1999