Volunteering Opportunites
20/05/2024
By Ffiona Jones
We have opportunities for volunteers to help us provide guided tours of the Park over the summer months. If you have an interest in the history of the site and are able to give us an hour or two of your time either on weekdays, early evenings, or at the weekends, please contact FfionaJones@tywigateway.org.uk for …
Tag: history
Gwenonwy Owen’s memories
Posted: 24/01/2022 by Caroline Welch
Gwenonwy Davies (nee Owen) (1887-1981) was the eldest daughter eldest daughter of Bishop John Owen (1854-1926) and the National Library of Wales holds two bundles of exercise books containing her memoirs of her time at Bishop’s Park. then the private garden of Bishop Owen, her father. Here are some of her memories of the gardens: …
Category: History Tags: history, memories
Exciting Discoveries in the Walled Garden!
Posted: 09/11/2021 by Caroline Welch
Some weeks ago, while fencing off the foundations of the old greenhouses in the walled garden, our landscape contractors ‘lost’ a fence post in the surrounding ground. As they knocked it in, it disappeared in a void underneath.
Category: Latest News Tags: garden history, history, Walled Garden
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
Carmarthenshire Museum
Posted: 11/01/2021 by Caroline Welch
Visit Carmarthenshire Museum to discover fascinating and curious art and antiquities from Carmarthenshire’s past. It’s the perfect place to soak up the history from a part of Wales steeped in heritage, myth and legend. The museum is set in parkland in the glorious Tywi valley and was for centuries the palace of the Bishop of …
Category: Uncategorized Tags: history, Museum
Explore the Park
Posted: 30/03/2019 by Admin
With beautiful new gardens, historic parkland and woodland, a wildlife-rich ox-bow lake and great flood-plain meadow to explore – there is so much to discover at Bishop’s Park. Unwind in Y Caffi, engage with 800 years of history in our learning centre, or take a tour of the secret walled garden with its heritage orchard.
Category: Explore the Park Tags: history, horticulture, wildlife
Looking at the Walled Garden through Historic Maps
Posted: 15/03/2018 by Admin
In 2017 Dyfed Archaeological Trust undertook an investigation in the walled kitchen garden, generously supported by HLF and the Sabina Sutherland Charitable Trust, and involving substantial work by volunteers, including desk based evaluation and careful excavation and recording on site. Here’s what they found by looking at the historic maps of the site. You can …
Category: History Tags: archaeology, garden history, history, maps, Walled Garden
Conservation Management Plan
Posted: 06/02/2016 by Admin
The Conservation Management Plan (Nicholas Pearson Partnership, August 2016) sets out the issues and opportunities to realise the Trust’s vision for the conservation of Bishop’s Park. Click here to download as a PDF.
Category: History Tags: 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
History of the Park and Gardens
Posted: 06/10/2015 by Admin
Evidence for the gardens and parkland at Abergwili comes late in the sites history. Indeed, a list of the property owned by the Bishop’s of St David’s written in 1326 doesn’t even mention whether a garden or park existed at Abergwili.
Category: Garden History, History Tags: Bishops Pond, garden history, history, Walled Garden
The Old Bishop’s Palace
Posted: 06/10/2015 by Admin
The connection between the Bishops of St Davids and Abergwili goes back over 700 years. It began at the end of the thirteenth century when Bishop Thomas Bek established a church college of 21 priests in Abergwili. This was at a time when the church owned extensive lands in the area and Abergwili was one …
Category: Bishop's Palace Tags: Bishops Palace, history