Publications available for sale

The Living Landscape 
Animals in Parks and Gardens of Essex.
A wealth of rarely published information, providing a fascinating and comprehensive insight into the role of animals in the designed landscape. From bee boles to deer parks, fishponds to menageries, aviaries, dovecotes, warrens and stables, a captivating picture of a vibrant and moving landscape unfolds as we are invited to peer over the garden wall.  (Copies still available at £5 plus P&P.)

Repton in Essex
A gazetteer of 40 sites in Essex associated with Humphry Repton. This publication includes the history of the sites and their families and is illustrated with contemporary pictorial evidence. Illustrations from the six surviving Essex Red Books are also included. (2nd Edition available for £10 plus P&P)

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Note that for those publications below with an * a pdf version is available on request.

Out of print publications

Lost Gardens of Thurrock * A fascinating collection of articles on the Lost Gardens of Thurrock ranging from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Written by the Essex Gardens Trust team of researchers, this wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated book includes insights into the secrets of the old walled garden of Belhus Park, the creation of a quarry garden that drew thousands of visitors each summer, and how gardens were used as status symbols in the past. You will learn the stories of the gardens, their owners, and the urban, industrial and social changes that influenced their design and ultimate demise. (Available for £12.50 plus P&P)

Lancelot Brown and his Essex Clients *
A Gazetteer of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s eighteenth century commissions that reshaped the landscape of some of the historic houses in Essex. (Out of Print.)

Rooted in Essex *
A gazetteer of designers, nurserymen, horticulturists, writers and artists associated with the historic gardens of Essex. The gazetteer concentrates on individuals who were not only substantially based in Essex but were also professionally involved with our historic gardens. It contains names many of us will recognise such as Humphry Repton, Frederick Gibberd and John Constable, but also lesser known figures such as Pamela Underwood, Frank Martin and Helen Robinson.  (Out of Print.)

Paper Landscapes
Archive based studies on historic gardens and landscapes in Essex.
A series of studies on archive-based projects, focussing on the archives themselves, rather than approaching them purely as aids to understanding specific sites. (Out of Print.)

Historic Designed Landscapes: Planning and Conservation Guidance.
A core document which identifies and explains types of historic landscape together with related vulnerability and key conservation issues and brief outlines of good conservation practice. (Out of Print.)

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