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: Walled Garden
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
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
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 and Archaeology
Posted: 22/12/2015 by Admin
Download the Walled Garden Archaeological Evaluation report carried out by Dyfed Archaeological Trust in March 2017 in PDF format. Download the Historic Landscape Survey carried out by Cambria Archaeology in 2005 in PDF format. Download the Standing Building Recording & Archaeological Evaluation carried out by DAT Archaeological Services in 2019 in PDF format. …
Category: Uncategorized Tags: archaeology, garden history, Walled Garden
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