GQT with a wildlife focus
30/09/2026
By Admin2
Parc yr Esgob, the Bishop’s Park in Abergwili, is hosting an autumn Gardeners’ Question Time, with a special wildlife focus, on October 7th, 6pm, in Stacey’s Kitchen, Parc yr Esgob. The audience will be able to pose their questions about how to garden brilliantly in a way that encourages pollinators, creates a mosaic of habitats …
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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