Description
Book Synopsis
A reference guide to historical sources for over 200 Devon gardens. It also provides an introduction for would-be garden historians on how to conduct garden research. Each entry begins with a brief section describing the garden''s history, amplified by quotations from contemporary travellers and diarists.
Trade Review
" . . . This volume will be an invaluable handbook for tourists and others visiting the county's historica gardens as well as a guide to further research . . . Don't assume, though, that this is just garden history de haut en bas; Gray is broad-minded enough to provide appendices listing records of allotments and of nurseries and market-gardens in the county." (Archives, Volume 23, No. 98)
"For anyone involved in researching historic parks and gardens a publication of this kind is both invaluable and a great rarity. Lucky Devon! The information contained in it is the kind that takes hours of painstaking trawling through record office indexes and catalogues to unearth. Todd Gray has done the sifting process for us and produced a short-cut to relevant archival, illustrated and published sources for the 226 parks and gardens listed. A wide range of users will find this book useful and fascinating, from those involved professionlly with historic parks and gardens to owners, local historians, or even media researchers in search of authenticity. The author has opened an Aladdin's cave of riches: let us hope that it is put to good use." (Landscape History)
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Location of Record Offices and Libraries
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Devon's garden history
Devon's gardens and the surviving documents
Beginning garden research in Devon
Using the Guides
Garden descriptions
Documentary sources
Printed sources
Illustrations
Appendices
Note on editorial policy
The Gardens Appendices:
Appendix One. Devon places and gardens visited by Revd John Swete as noted in his travel journals, 1789-1804
Appendix Two. Allotment gardens in Devon
Appendix Three. Devon nurseries and market-gardens
Appendix Four. Devon garden societies
Appendix Five. Miscellaneous Devon records
Index
