Success for Wildlife Gardeners’ Question Time
20/10/2026
By Admin2
Parc yr Esgob, the Bishop’s Park in Abergwili, hosted an autumn Gardeners’ Question Time, with a special wildlife focus, on October 7th, 6pm, in Stacey’s Kitchen, Parc yr Esgob’s resident cafe. The panel members were Laura Moss from West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre, Joseph Atkin, who was Head Gardener at Aberglasney, Simon Richards who is …
Posted: 04/01/2022 by Caroline Welch
15 Minute Heritage Grant!
We are thrilled to announce we’ve been awarded #15MinuteHeritage funding to train and support young people to create bilingual films and digital gaming apps of Bishops Park and Carmarthenshire Museums! The project, called – ‘Parc yr Esgob Hanes a Chof: Capturing, Digitising and Sharing our Stories’, will deliver much-needed young people-centred interpretation on site and …
Posted: 01/01/2022 by Caroline Welch
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all our supporters! And what a transformational year it’s been for Bishop’s Park… We’ve now planted more than 4,000 new flowers, shrubs, trees and bulbs, installed 5 picnic benches, 20 bird boxes, 10 bat boxes as well as restoring 700 metres of the park’s historic paths and 12 new park benches. We …
Posted: 22/12/2021 by Caroline Welch
Wildlife Watch: December 2021
Louise, Ffiona and ? on 20/12/21 It was a cold, dull day at the end of December. We noticed bulbs beginning to break through the soil in the Jenkinson Garden – a welcome sign of the Spring to come. Today a climbing rose had just been planted against pergola – the planting of the Jenkinson …
Posted: 23/11/2021 by Caroline Welch
Nov 2021: Our 1st Wildlife Watch
Today we began our first ever Monthly Wildlife Watch – observing the flora and fauna and noticing the seasonal changes in the Park.
Posted: 09/11/2021 by Caroline Welch
Y Caffi
Stacey’s Kitchen The café at Parc Yr Esgob-Bishop’s Park is open 9am-4pm, 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: 09/11/2021 by Caroline Welch
Exciting Discoveries in the Walled Garden!
Some weeks ago, while fencing off the foundations of the old greenhouses in the walled garden, our landscape contractors ‘lost’ a fence post in the surrounding ground. As they knocked it in, it disappeared in a void underneath.
Posted: 17/08/2021 by Caroline Welch
Bishop’s Park Show
Have you got remarkable runner beans? Do you make scrumptious scones? Are your photos fantastic? If so, bring them along to our Horticultural Show on the 4th of September at the Bishop’s Park, Abergwili.
Posted: 29/06/2021 by Caroline Welch
Celebrating our unique heritage this Summer
PRESS RELEASE 29-06-2021 Carmarthenshire’s unique heritage celebrated this Summer at the Bishop’s Park & Gardens, Abergwili The rich history and diverse wildlife of rural Carmarthenshire are celebrated in a series of activities this Summer at the Bishop’s Park & Gardens, Abergwili. The programme is being organised by the Parc yr Esgob Trust, a tiny charity restoring, …
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.