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Surrey has a rich legacy of historic parks and gardens. Many of these were created because of the county's proximity to London. In spite of threats from development, neglect and lack of resources, many still survive.
The following Surrey gardens of national importance are listed on the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England compiled by English Heritage. The original Register was compiled in the 1980s but research by Surrey Gardens Trust recorders has led to the inclusion of further properties, including Nonsuch, Ashtead, Gatton, Bagshot, Frimley and Farnham Parks and Sutton Place.
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GRADE I |
A mid C17 terrace, bath house and tunnel surviving from a garden designed by John Evelyn, with mid C19 exotic tree planting by Henry Drummond set within a park of C17 origin.
National Gardens Scheme
www.ngs.org.uk
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2
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GRADE II* |
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A collection of mid C18 follies set within a secluded steep-sided valley containing a chain of lakes.
Regular openings
www.busbridgelakes.co.uk
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3
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GRADE II |
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Gardens and pleasure grounds within a landscaped park, c 1776-81, by Lancelot Brown replacing the early C18 formal gardens. Gardens further developed in the late C19, with advice by a Mr Nesfield, and in the late C20.
National Trust
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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4
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GRADE I |
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Extensive and complex pleasure grounds and park around a country mansion. Main phases C18 and early C19, with early C18 work by Sir John Vanbrugh with Charles Bridgeman and possibly Stephen Switzer, and William Kent with Thomas Greening; mid C18 work by Lancelot Brown; and early C19 work by J W Hiort, J B Papworth, and A C Pugin. Claremont was highly influential in the English landscape movement during the C18.
National Trust
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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GRADE II* |
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Pleasure grounds first laid out by Charles Howard in the early 1650s. Further developed in the late C18 and early C19 by Thomas Hope.
No access
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6
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GRADE II |
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Mid Victorian gardens and pleasure grounds belonging to the Duke of Connaught, set in parkland reimparked in the late C17, and incorporating pleasure grounds of the early C19 laid out for the Duchess of Gloucester.
No access
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7
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GRADE II |
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Early C20 formal gardens, possibly designed by Harold Peto, set in a park associated with a country house.
No access
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8
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GRADE II |
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A woodland garden containing notable late C19 rhododendron hybrids, and the site of the first meeting of Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens.
No access
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9
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GRADE II |
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Mid C19 formal gardens, with late C19 and early C20 picturesque pleasure grounds and associated artificial rockwork by Messrs James Pulham and planting by James Veitch and Son.
No access
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10
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GRADE II |
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Remains of late C17 formal garden layout by Sir William Temple, extended early C18, set in informal grounds with C19 planting.
No access
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GRADE I |
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The late C19/early C20 home and garden created and lived in by Gertrude Jekyll for over fifty years, the house designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
National Gardens Scheme
www.ngs.org.uk
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12
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GRADE II |
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Pleasure grounds and park of 163ha, laid out, by William Lock,
in the late C18, to accompany a new country house, and in part incorporating
existing parkland. Some improvements were carried out in the first
half of the C19.
Surrey County Council - park only
www.surreywildlifetrust.co.uk
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GRADE II |
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An C18 informal landscape created from an earlier formal design incorporating the river terrace of the Thames within a Tudor deer park.
Oatlands Park Hotel
www.oatlandsparkhotel.com
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GRADE II* |
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Gardens and pleasure grounds laid out in 1761, modified by R B Sheridan in 1790s, and by Joseph Bonsor in c 1820-5, when the estate was enlarged and walled gardens were built. Walled gardens laid out as flower gardens from c 1906 onwards.
National Trust
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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GRADE II |
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An early C20 garden designed by Lady Iveagh, strongly influenced by the writings of Gertrude Jekyll, surrounding a contemporary country house.
No access
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GRADE II |
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Gardens and parkland surrounding a medieval priory, which was first made into a house in the mid-C16 and was rebuilt as a country house in the C18 and C19, with associated landscaping.
Open access
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GRADE II* |
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Late C18 cottage orné grounds, modified in
1938 by Christopher Tunnard with an early Modern Movement design.
No access
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GRADE II |
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Mid C19 gardens surrounding a country house, set in parkland laid out mainly in the mid C19.
Regular openings
www.titsey.com
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GRADE II* |
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An early C20 plantsman's garden, laid out by the Caroe family with advice from Gertrude Jekyll.
National Gardens Scheme
www.ngs.org.uk
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GRADE II* |
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Experimental wild gardens laid out by G F Wilson from 1878 to 1902 and acquired by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1903, and further enlarged and developed since then.
Regular openings
www.rhs.org.uk
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GRADE II* |
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Mid C17 gardens by John Evelyn and George Evelyn, with early to late C19 alterations.
Conference Centre
www.hayley-conf.co.uk
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GRADE II |
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Park and pleasure grounds forming the setting for a country house, with improvements to the existing part in the 1760s and 70s by Lancelot Brown; mid C19 remodelling around the house. Gardens remodelled in the late C19 by H E Milner, and further elaborated during early C20.
Regular openings
www.gatton-park.org.uk
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GRADE II* |
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An example of a late C19 house and garden in the Surrey vernacular style, resulting from a collaboration between Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.
No access
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GRADE I |
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Landscaped pleasure grounds and park laid out between 1738 and 1773 by the Hon Charles Hamilton.
Regular openings
www.painshill.co.uk
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GRADE II |
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The largest cemetery in England, founded in 1852 to house London's dead, serviced by its own railway line and laid out and planted to J C Loudon's principles
Regular openings
www.tbcs.org.uk
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GRADE II* |
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A C16 house with formal gardens laid out in 1918 by W H Romaine-Walker in partnership with G H Jenkins, incorporating earlier features.
Hotel
www.greatfosters.co.uk
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GRADE II |
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The site of the Tudor palace of Nonsuch, and accompanying gardens, is within Henry VIII's much larger Little Park, disparked in the late C17 and early C18. The present mansion was a one time the home of Thomas Whately, author of Observations on Modern Gardening, 1770, who was responsible for making improvements to the existing gardens.
Open access
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GRADE II* |
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Landscaped woodland gardens created within Windsor Great Park by Sir Eric Savill 1932-9, extended 1950s and 1977.
Regular openings
www.savillgarden.co.uk
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GRADE I |
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A landscaped lake, created for the first Duke of Cumberland c 1750 by Henry Flitcroft as part of Windsor Great Park. It was the largest artificial lake of its day. The lake was enlarged and further landscaped, partly by Thomas Sandby, for George III, c. 1780s. The area was again embellished by George IV in the mid 1820s.
Open access
www.royal-windsor.com
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GRADE II |
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Arcadian landscaped ferme orneé designed by
Philip Southcote from 1734/5.
No access
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GRADE II |
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Formal gardens to a design of 1920 by Edward White of the firm Milner, Son and White, accompanying a country house, surrounded by C19 pleasure grounds and parkland.
Cadets Training Centre
www.ctcfrimleypark.army.org.uk
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GRADE II |
| An early C20 country house
surrounded by formal and informal gardens laid out initially from
1907, with major additions c 1922 to designs by Gertrude Jekyll
working with the architect C Clare Nauheim, and further work in
the late 1920s to designs by Percy Cane.
No access
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GRADE II |
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Roof garden of 1956-7 by Geoffrey Jellicoe for Harvey's department store in Guildford.
House of Fraser store
www.houseoffraser.co.uk
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GRADE II |
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A C17 park, developed during the C18 and C19 by successive owners
Open access to northern part.
Southern part is City of London Freemen's School
www.clfs.surrey.sch.uk
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GRADE II |
| A C14 deer park associated
with C12/C13 Farnham Castle and laid out as a landscape park by Bishop
North in the late C18 and early C19. The early C19 pleasure grounds within
the curtain wall of the castle survive in part, as do those around the
Ranger's House in the centre of the park.
Open access to park, gardens around Ranger's House are private
www.waverley.gov.uk
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GRADE II |
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Late C18 planting, on the site of a prehistoric hill fort, laid out in the mid C19 with picturesque planting. Opened as a public part in 1928, with early C20 landscaping by Percy Cane.
Open access
www.runnymede.gov.uk
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A landscape park laid out in the late C18 or C19 to accompany a Tudor mansion, with gardens and pleasure grounds largely laid out in the C19 and early C20. In the 1980s Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe designed features which were inserted into several of the existing garden compartments, with a lake which was laid out in the park; together these form one of his most important works.
No access
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GRADE II |
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An early C20 formal garden designed by H Thackeray Turner with Gertrude Jekyll, surrounding an Arts and Crafts house designed by H Thackeray Turner for himself.
No access
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