Allerton Park, (also known as Thornville Royal), Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England

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

Mid-19th-century terraced gardens which provide the setting for a country house, surrounded by parkland which was enlarged in the 1720s and reworked in the 1770s.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Allerton Park lies 6 kilometres east of Knaresborough at the west edge of the village of Allerton Mauleverer. The 205 hectare park is bounded to the south by New Road, and to the north by Shepherd's Wood Gate, with the old Great North Road (now A168) forming a straight boundary down the west side of the park on the far side of the estate wall. The setting is largely rural, with the A1(M) trunk road adjacent to the west.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

J Evans, The Beauties of England and Wales (1812)

F O Morris, Series of Picturesque Views 2, (1866-80), p 27

C Stourton, The History of the Noble House of Stourton (1899)

D Stroud, Capability Brown (1975), pp 198-9

Country Life, no 52 (24 December 1987), pp 48-52

Allerton Park: Request for Upgrading, (Gerald Arthur Rolph Foundation for Historic Preservation and Education early 1990s) [copy on EH file]

Maps

A map surveyed for Hon Richard Arundell, around 1734 (Leeds City Archive)

Estate map, early 18th century (Rolph Foundation collection)

Estate map, around 1770 (Leeds City Archive)

Estate map, 1834 (Leeds City Archive)

Estate map, 1845-50 (Leeds City Archive)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1845; 2nd edition revised 1907

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1892; 2nd edition published 1909
 

Description rewritten: January 2000

Edited: October 2004