In the county of Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire County Council shares responsibility for governance with six District Councils. Two of the district councils, Gloucester City Council and Cheltenham Borough Council are urban in nature and the other four, Cotswold District Council, Forest of Dean District Council, Stroud District Council and North Gloucestershire Borough Council are generally rural …
From the Garden’s Trust: It’s the Gardens Trust’s 10th anniversary this year, so time to celebrate! Throughout the year we’ll be delivering events and sharing messages through our website https://thegardenstrust.org/, e-bulletin and social media highlighting the difference we’ve made so far and what the future of helping to protect historic parks and gardens might look …
The soul of Warden Hill might be the simple meeting room now St Christopher’s church with ten beautiful Tom Denny stained glass windows, but the heart of Warden Hill is a community orchard, Weaver’s Field, and the adjoining pasture which is Warden Hill. This name shows that in the past the hill was a lookout, …
As members who attended Paul Rabbitt’s talk on municipal parks know, GGLT with help from the Gloucestershire Orchard Trust, is preparing a plan for volunteers to help with establishing up-to-date information on the county’s orchards, both as existing at the present time, and where possible with some historic background. Objective The main aims of the …
We have been chatting to our friends in the neighbouring County Gardens Trusts (CGTs): Wiltshire, Avon and Somerset, and have worked together to organise a really brilliant Garden History Research Day – FREE for any would-be researchers out there! The details of how the day will pan out are almost finalised, but in the meantime …
The Gloucestershire Gardens & Landscape Trust is a registered charity, founded in 1991 to identify, record and preserve the county’s extraordinary array of gardens and landscapes.
