Rosie’s Week in Pictures – February 2026
01/04/2026
By Admin2
Engaging young people with heritage can be difficult, so we were delighted to welcome Rosie for 4 days of work experience in February 2026. This is Rosie’s Blog: Day 1 The day started with a quick tour of the parkland, beginning outside the Carmarthenshire museum in Jenkinson’s Garden, which I learned would once have been …
Tag: Bishop Jenkinson
Jenkinson Garden
Posted: 19/08/2021 by Caroline Welch
Greeting visitors to Bishop’s Park is one of the site’s major highlights – the Jenkinson Garden. This very special place has been designed to pay homage to the formal garden created here during Bishop John Jenkinson’s tenure between 1825 and 1840. This was the last time in its history the site underwent major landscaping works, …
Category: Explore the Park, Jenkinson Garden Tags: apple tree, beech, Bishop Jenkinson, flowers, garden history, pear tree, pollinators, spring bulbs, spring flowers
Bishop Jenkinson’s Garden Takes Shape!
Posted: 04/03/2021 by Caroline Welch
In March 2021 the entrance area which currently greets visitors to the site is being transformed to provide a new garden for year-round interest. It takes its design inspiration from the time of Bishop John Jenkinson (1825 to 1840), and is circular in plan, with attractive planting including espalier Welsh heritage apple and pear trees, …
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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