Are you a club, society or organisation? Are you looking for a destination for your summer trip? Are you a tour operator looking for a destination for your clients?

Why not come to Parc Yr Esgob-Bishop’s Park? With our partners at Stacey’s Kitchen and Carmarthenshire Museum, there is plenty to do and see here at our site!

Book a Guided Tour of the park and gardens and learn about the important history of the site and what makes it so special. Take a walk around Carmarthenshire Museum, housed in the former Bishop’s Palace, and see its wonderful exhibitions and artefacts that are a part of the story of Carmarthenshire. Book a table at Stacey’s Kitchen for lunch or afternoon tea.

Please email us for further details and how to book: enquires@tywigateway.org.uk

The Walled Garden is not currently open to the public due to health and safety issues. However, it is being used daily by our gardeners and horticultural volunteers to grow produce for use in Stacey’s Kitchen.

We do include access to the Walled Garden on our regular Guided Tours and during special events, if the weather allows. Please check the ‘What’s On’ page for further details.

We are sorry but there is no disabled access at this time.

If you happen to see the door open and there isn’t a sign saying that it’s open to the public, we would be grateful if you could refrain from entering.

Thank you for your cooperation.

The Tywi Gateway Trust, who manage Parc Yr Esgob-Bishop’s Park, Abergwili are looking for new trustees to join our Board of Trustees.

Do you live in the local community? Do you have one or more of these skills: Entrepreneurial experience, fundraising or generating income, marketing or PR?

For more information, head to our website https://parcyresgob.org.uk/could-you-be-a-trustee-why-not-join-our-board-of-trustees/

Closing date for applications: 30/06/2023

Some visitors will have already noticed that new signs have been put up around the park  reminding you to keep your dogs on leads .

Parc Yr Esgob-Bishop’s Park is an important garden for its history, horticulture and wildlife, which is what makes it so special.

We want everyone to have an enjoyable experience whilst visiting the Park, so we are asking all dog owners to behave responsibly and keep their dogs on leads and of course, pick up their mess and dispose of it in the bins provided (there are 3 within the Park and further ones in the outer car park). Please help protect children and wildlife.

Stacey’s Kitchen will be closing at 3:30pm today Wednesday 5th of April 2023, due to a private event. Back to normal opening hours (9:00am-5:00pm) from tomorrow.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Our 2nd Annual Spring Plant Fair will be held on Saturday 29th April, stalls to open at 11am.

There will be a range of stalls by local growers, along with other local businesses. We will be holding tours of the park & gardens, along with talks and demonstrations throughout the day.

If you would like to book a stall, please complete the form below and return to FfionaJones@tywigateway.org.uk or for further enquires, please contact our Head Gardener, Piers Lunt on 07444438168 or Ffiona on 07395082719

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February’s Wildlife Watch Walk was held on Tuesday 21st of February, which happened to be during the half term holidays and it was lovely to welcome a small group of girls who joined us.

We immediately spotted some signs that spring was on its way as we walked through the Jenkinson Garden at the beginning of our walk, with the crocuses which were just peeking through the soil last month, now in full bloom.

We could hear a great tit shouting close to the bridge and a pair of coots were spotted in the undergrowth at the side of the island, along with a grey squirrel. We could also see goat willow in full bloom on the island.

Despite last month’s flooding, the water level in the pond has already receded significantly. There were 2 pairs of mute swans and one male on the lower end of the pond. We saw a number of mallards, including a female sitting on a branch of a tree by the side of the pond, creating a real racket!

We saw 2 robins and a number of wood pigeon and a red kite across the Great Meadow. There was a large cluster of frog spawn in the ditch that runs from the old oak tree to the hedge line. We noticed a deep hole that had been dug at an angle in the soil. We couldn’t identify what had created it, but we felt it was too deep and at the wrong angle to have been dug by a dog. A fungus, which we think were oyster mushrooms were seen growing on an old oak tree in the hedge line. The horse chestnut at the bottom of the meadow had large, sticky buds developing on it.

In the grassland, we noticed that the docks were starting to come through, thistles starting to develop, along with spurge, nettles, bitter cress and speedwell.

On the lawn, a number of daisies and a few lesser celandine were starting to flower, along with a carpet of snowdrops along the side of the lower path and the Ha-ha.

We’ll be resuming our monthly Wildlife Watch walks at Parc Yr Esgob-Bishop’s Park to record the site’s flora & fauna after a break over the summer. Recording the wildlife across the site is an important part of the ecological work we do here at Parc Yr Esgob-Bishop’s Park. It enables us to monitor if the work we’ve already completed to expand the site’s biodiversity is working.

Everyone is welcome to join us, including experienced naturalists or members of the public who want to learn more about the natural environment.

We’ll be meeting at the reception area at 2pm on the 3rd Tuesdays of the month. Please wear suitable clothing for the weather and sturdy shoes/boots or wellingtons.