Clumber Park, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England

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

An early 18th-century deer park landscaped in the 18th century, possibly with some advice from Lancelot Brown, containing the remnants of early 19th-century terraces possibly by William Sawrey Gilpin, a lakeside pleasure ground by William Eden Nesfield, with 18th-century garden features by Stephen Wright and John Simpson, and a 19th-century garden feature by William Andrews Nesfield.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Clumber Park is part of the Dukeries, a term used since the 18th century to describe an area of Nottinghamshire south of Worksop and north-east of Mansfield which contained the estates of five dukes. The park is 4.5 kilometres south of Worksop and to the east of the village of Carburton, with the estates of Thoresby and Welbeck Abbey (see descriptions of both these sites elsewhere in the Register) lying immediately adjacent to the south-east and west respectively. The east boundary is the A614, the east part of the north boundary is the A57, with the other boundaries giving on to woodland and agricultural land. In the north-west corner of the site, the registered site includes the avenue which runs west from the park to Ollerton Road. The site comprises some 1600 hectares of parkland (guide leaflet) and lies on either side of Clumber Lake and the River Poulter.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

J Throsby, Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire republished with large additions (1790) [facsimile edition 1972]

A Barry, The Life and Works of Sir Charles Barry (1867)

C Holme, Gardens of England in the Midland and Eastern Counties (1908)

Country Life, 24 (19 September 1908), p 384

Gardener's Magazine, (18 June 1910)

J B Firth, Highways and Byways in Nottinghamshire (1924)

J Anthony, Gardens of Britain 6, (1979)

M Binney and A Hills, Elysian Gardens (1979)

N Pevsner and E Williamson, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire (2nd edition 1979)

R Innes-Smith, The Dukeries and Sherwood Forest (1984)

Clumber Park, guidebook, (National Trust 1992)

Clumber Park: An Historic Restoration Plan prepared for the National Trust, (Chris Burnett Associates 1993)

Report of the History of the Pleasure Grounds and Terrace Gardens at Clumber Park, (J Ray Associates 1994)

Clumber Park, map and guide leaflet, (National Trust no date)

Maps

G Sanderson, Twenty Miles Around Mansfield, surveyed 1829-33, published 1835

Sir Charles Barry, Survey of Clumber Park, 1857 (in Ray Associates 1994)

Annotated plan of Clumber Gardens (kitchen garden) in 1930s, by Mr Brown, a former gardener (National Trust Collection)

OS 25" to 1 mile 1st edition surveyed 1884; 2nd edition published 1899; 3rd edition published 1920

Archival Items

Patent Rolls, 9 Anne, 3/29, 5/10 (PRO Index, pp 136, 140)
 

Description written: October 1999

Edited: January 2002