The trust formerly known as….
07/04/2026
By Admin2
Trustees and staff at Parc yr Esgob (Bishop’s Park) will be using the name “Parc yr Esgob Trust” as the public working name for the charity from April 2026, although The Tywi Gateway Trust remains our legally constituted title. Betsan Caldwell, Trust chair explained “We wanted to improve name recognition of Parc yr Esgob and the …
Tag: Walled Garden
Walled Garden
Posted: 09/11/2021 by Caroline Welch
Find out more about our new Walled Garden Restoration Project which started in July 2025. Please note that the Walled Garden is not open to the public at the moment due to the restoration work. We will announce future public open days here. The half-acre Walled Garden, dating from at least the 1790s, is Parc …
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