The trust formerly known as….
07/04/2026
By Admin2
Trustees and staff at Parc yr Esgob (Bishop’s Park) will be using the name “Parc yr Esgob Trust” as the public working name for the charity from April 2026, although The Tywi Gateway Trust remains our legally constituted title. Betsan Caldwell, Trust chair explained “We wanted to improve name recognition of Parc yr Esgob and the …
Posted: 11/06/2019 by Admin
Congratulations to Michael Norman MBE!
A European white elm tree being planted at the Bishops Park to celebrate Michael Norman’s contribution to the site. Michael Norman, one of the founding trustees of the Tywi Gateway Trust, has been honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Awarded for his services to heritage, Michael was one of the founding members of the …
Posted: 01/04/2019 by Caroline Welch
What will be happening?
Over the next two years Initial project work includes managing our trees. As well as restoring the historic design of the park, this will improve the health of specimen trees, enable us to plant more trees and shrubs and increase the park’s wildlife value and appeal to visitors. Using traditional techniques and materials, the …
Posted: 01/02/2019 by Admin
Film makers at the Bishop’s Park
Daisy White and Ioan Ings of Akron Productions are young, up and coming, local film makers. Their first film together was made here in the Bishop’s Park walled kitchen garden, recording the archaeological excavations back in March 2017 . The park remains as photogenic as ever and in autumn 2018 Meg Phillips, a 2nd year …
Posted: 07/12/2018 by Caroline Welch
Phase 1 – February 2019
As part of our three-year restoration project at the Park, the Trust needs to undertake significant amounts of work on the trees and woodland. This work will focus on rejuvenating the arboretum and woodland areas, removing those trees with disease, those that are compromising the listed structures (particularly the ha-ha), and those invasive species, principally …
Posted: 07/12/2018 by Admin
Tree Work at the Bishop’s Park
Now that the Parc yr Esgob Trust is actively managing the Bishop’s Park it is vital that we look after the health of our trees and woodland. This means that we need to do lots of work on them throughout the Park to improve the site for people and wildlife, and to give us the …
Posted: 01/12/2018 by Caroline Welch
Getting Going
Start of the Project In 2017 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the Tywi Gateway Project £1.2 million and by September 2018 Louise Austin and Piers Lunt were appointed as Trust Manager and Head Gardener. The project was ready to get started. Through to Autumn 2021, with the support of a growing band of volunteers, the …
Posted: 01/11/2018 by Admin
Gateway to Gardening
Become a volunteer at Parc yr Esgob and join Piers in the Park on Wednesday 14th November from 10.00 til 3.00. The Tywi Gateway Trust is getting all gardening tooled up in the Bishop’s Park, Abergwili, home of Carmarthenshire’s County Museum. Piers Lunt, the Trust’s new head gardener is asking for volunteers to come and …
Posted: 14/10/2018 by Admin
Trustees Wanted
Do you love Carmarthenshire? Do you care about our heritage, landscape and the environment? Would you like to be involved at the start of something new and exciting? Ymddiriedolaeth Drws i’r Dyffryn – The Tywi Gateway Trust (now Parc yr Esgob Trust) was set up to support the community based redevelopment of the Bishop’s Park at Abergwili, and was fortunate to receive funding …
Posted: 07/09/2018 by Admin
Open Doors – the Walled Kitchen Garden
On 22nd and 23rd of September, in conjunction with Carmarthenshire County Museum, we will be opening the door to the Walled Kitchen Garden as part of the Cadw Open Doors scheme, encouraging free access to historic sites during September. Between 11am and 3pm you can enter the walled garden and view the surviving elements of …
Posted: 03/09/2018 by Admin
New Head Gardener
The Board of Trustees are delighted to announce that Piers Lunt has been appointed as Prif Arddwr-Head Gardener and will take up this new post on September 3rd 2018. Piers was the Botanical Horticulturist/Arborist at the National Botanic Garden of Wales (NBGW) and has a wide knowledge of, and deep enthusiasm for, plants and gardens. …