Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31972 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Watlington Hall Park |
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Summary
A late 18th century historic parkland. It was a pleasure grounds by 1839 with isolated stables and a kitchen garden. Plantations were established around edge of the park by 1869 and lodges erected at the ends of the east and west drives by 1885. There is no public access to the park and the available information is very limited.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6251 1139 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF61SW |
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| Parish: | WATLINGTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Park may have existed before 1773 but was there by 1794; probable road diversions. Faden’s map (S3), surveyed in 1794, showed the Hall (NHER 2279) in the centre of a designed landscape of c.80 hectares. Today’s entrance from the south-west is unaltered from the drive shown on Faden’s map. The 1839 Tithe Award map (S4) shows that the 2 and-a-half acres surrounding the Hall included formal gardens, a shrubbery and a pleasure ground. In the centre of the park the stables and coach-house are shown, with an adjacent 2 acres of (probably kitchen) gardens. The remainder of the park totalled 46 acres. In the north-east corner is an area of pasture of 11 acres. The pasture land to the east was intersected with dykes. Woodland bordered the park to the north and north-east, and part of the west boundary. The park was bordered by roads to the west, south and east.
The 1869 map was drawn up for the sale of the estate (S1). The sale particulars described the park as ‘sheltered from the north by hansome belts and plantations’. The park is c.100 acres. The 1885 First Edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (S5) shows tree belts along the west, north and south boundaries, and the south road boundary is also tree lined. There are lodges. There are standing trees across the whole of the open parkland, some show old field boundaries.
The 1929 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (S6) shows a small extension to north-west woodland.
See (S1), (S3), (S4), (S5) and (S6).
E. Rose (NLA), 30 August 1996.
Updated by C. Hurst (UEA), 15 November 2011.
September 2007. ALSF NHER Enhancement Sub-Unit D.
Finds from within the park are recorded as NHER 25492.
M. Dennis (NLA), 19 September 2007.
Monument Types
- COACH HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- FORMAL GARDEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- KITCHEN GARDEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- KITCHEN GARDEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- LODGE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- PLANTATION (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- PLEASURE GARDEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SHRUBBERY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- STABLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TREE BELT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- LANDSCAPE PARK (18th Century to 21st Century - 1750 AD to 2100 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Norfolk County Council. [unknown]. Inventory of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Norfolk.. Vol 2. |
| <S2> | Designation: English Heritage. Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.. |
| <S3> | Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797. |
| <S4> | Map: 1839. Watlington Tithe Map. |
| <S5> | Map: Ordnance Survey, First Edition, 6 Inch. 1879-1886. Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 6 inch map.. |
| <S6> | Map: 1929. 6 inch Ordnance Survey Map. |
Related records
| 25492 | Parent of: One medieval and one post medieval coin (Find Spot) |
| 2279 | Related to: Watlington Hall (Building) |
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