Volunteer Stories – Teresa Simson
10/06/2026
By Anne
Historical Costume Volunteer 2I have been volunteering at the park since 31st July 2024 “My sewing friend knew of the walled garden project and after approaching staff to see if you would like any costumes, it was agreed we should volunteer. “I love looking into the history of what we make and producing items of …
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History
Posted: 12/06/2021 by Admin
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.
Category: Featured Tabs, History Tags: bishops, Bishops Palace, garden history, history
The Abergwili Bishops
Posted: 23/10/2015 by Admin
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 …
Category: History, The Abergwili Bishops Tags: Bishop Jenkinson, bishops, history