Volunteering Opportunites
20/05/2024
By Ffiona Jones
We have opportunities for volunteers to help us provide guided tours of the Park over the summer months. If you have an interest in the history of the site and are able to give us an hour or two of your time either on weekdays, early evenings, or at the weekends, please contact FfionaJones@tywigateway.org.uk for …
Posted: 03/06/2024 by Ffiona Jones
Membership
Becoming a Member Are you interested in history, gardens, conservation, wildlife, or our environment? Or do you love the opportunity to be outside for a walk? Maybe you just want to help us save this amazing piece of our local history and heritage for future generations to experience and enjoy. Project grants have assisted us …
Posted: 09/11/2021 by Caroline Welch
Y Caffi
Stacey’s Kitchen The café at Parc Yr Esgob-Bishop’s Park is open 9am-5pm, 7days a week (usually). Managed by a company from Abergwili, Stacey’s Kitchen provides light lunches, cakes, tea, coffee etc. They also offer pre-bookable Grazing Tables and Afternoon Teas, along with catering for private events. For further information please contact them directly: Tel: 07805 …
Posted: 12/06/2021 by Admin
Wildlife
Conserving and enhancing opportunities for wildlife to flourish is at the heart of everything we do at Bishop’s Park. Both our buildings and parkland are home to many different species – and through our work we are monitoring what we have and how they make the site their home, noting any changes over the seasons, and maximising opportunities for them to flourish. From otters, bats, slowworms, eels, swans and kingfishers – it’s fascinating to find out who lives in the Park!
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: 11/06/2021 by Caroline Welch
Horticulture
Horticulture is a key aspect of our heritage at the Bishop’s Park, and a major part of our ongoing restoration. In unearthing the site’s gardening past we aim to understand how the historic methods and techniques of yesteryear can be used to inform a more sustainable future, both for the people and for the wildlife that share this unique and special place.