Rosie’s Week in Pictures – February 2026
01/04/2026
By Admin2
Engaging young people with heritage can be difficult, so we were delighted to welcome Rosie for 4 days of work experience in February 2026. This is Rosie’s Blog: Day 1 The day started with a quick tour of the parkland, beginning outside the Carmarthenshire museum in Jenkinson’s Garden, which I learned would once have been …
Posted: 04/05/2023 by Ffiona Jones
Bickering Bishops
During the summer last year, we were busy collecting people’s memories of the park and the palace over the decades. These memories will be saved and shared on the ‘Casgliad Y Werin’ website. As part of the ’15 Minute Digital Heritage’ project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, a group of young people came …
Posted: 24/01/2022 by Caroline Welch
Gwenonwy Owen’s memories
Gwenonwy Davies (nee Owen) (1887-1981) was the eldest daughter eldest daughter of Bishop John Owen (1854-1926) and the National Library of Wales holds two bundles of exercise books containing her memoirs of her time at Bishop’s Park. then the private garden of Bishop Owen, her father. Here are some of her memories of the gardens: …
Posted: 26/07/2021 by Admin
A Palace to Call Home
We hope you’re enjoying the historic Parc Yr Esgob-Bishop’s Palace. Welcome to our website. Here you can immerse yourself in the history, horticulture and wildlife of our 800 year old Park. Read more about the old Bishop’s Palace here or follow the links on the menu to explore other areas of the Park. And don’t forget to stop by …
Posted: 26/07/2021 by Admin
Supplies from Afar
We hope you’re enjoying the story of the Bishop’s own private canal! Welcome to our website. Here you can immerse yourself in the history, horticulture and wildlife of our 800 year old Park. Read more about the history of the park here or follow the links on the menu to explore other areas of the Park. And don’t forget …
Posted: 26/07/2021 by Admin
A Park Through Time
We hope you’re enjoying your visit to the Jenkinson garden at Parc Yr Esgob-Bishop’s Park. Welcome to our website! Here you can immerse yourself in the history, horticulture and wildlife of our 800 year old Park. Read more about the new Jenkinson garden here or follow the links on the menu to explore other areas …
Posted: 12/06/2021 by Admin
History
The Bishops Park and Gardens is brimming with history. From the ancient trees which have stood watch here for centuries, to the walled garden which provided exotic food and flowers for the bishop’s table, to the oxbow lake and the shifting landscape of the Tywi Valley flood plain, to the medieval bishops palace which the Park surrounds and the people that lived and worked here.
Posted: 15/03/2018 by Admin
Looking at the Walled Garden through Historic Maps
In 2017 Dyfed Archaeological Trust undertook an investigation in the walled kitchen garden, generously supported by HLF and the Sabina Sutherland Charitable Trust, and involving substantial work by volunteers, including desk based evaluation and careful excavation and recording on site. Here’s what they found by looking at the historic maps of the site. You can …
Posted: 06/02/2016 by Admin
Conservation Management Plan
The Conservation Management Plan (Nicholas Pearson Partnership, August 2016) sets out the issues and opportunities to realise the Trust’s vision for the conservation of Bishop’s Park. Click here to download as a PDF.
Posted: 23/10/2015 by Admin
The Abergwili Bishops
The history of the Abergwili Bishops is intriguing- and goes back over 700 years to the founding of a church college by Bishop Thomas Bek in the late thirteenth century. It was Bek’s college that would eventually become the Bishop’s Palace in the mid sixteenth century, when successive Bishops were major figures in Welsh and …
Posted: 06/10/2015 by Admin
History of the Park and Gardens
Evidence for the gardens and parkland at Abergwili comes late in the sites history. Indeed, a list of the property owned by the Bishop’s of St David’s written in 1326 doesn’t even mention whether a garden or park existed at Abergwili.