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 …
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Walled Garden
Posted: 09/11/2021 by Caroline Welch
The half-acre Walled Garden, dating from at least the 1790s, is Parc Yr Esgob-Bishop’s Park’s best kept secret. In fact, it is still known to many as the ‘secret’ garden, tucked away at the western side of the Park. Although it’s currently closed to public, we have a great vision to restore it so that it …
Category: Explore the Park, Walled Garden Tags: apple tree, garden history, pear tree, Walled Garden, wildlife
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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Bishop’s Park wins Local Places for Nature Grant
Posted: 18/12/2020 by Admin
PRESS RELEASE 18-12-2020 New wildlife-friendly gardens at the Bishop’s Park, Abergwili made possible by Welsh Government and National Lottery support The Tywi Gateway Trust has received a grant of £22,900 from Welsh Government and the National Lottery Heritage Fund ‘Local Places for Nature’ to create two new garden areas at the Bishop’s Park, Abergwili, …
Category: Latest News, Press Tags: apple tree, beech, pear tree