Garden History Of Devon

Todd Gray is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter. He is a specialist on Tudor and Stuart Devon.

" . . . This volume will be an invaluable handbook for tourists and others visiting the county's historica gardens as well as a guide to further research . . . Don't assume, though, that this is just garden history de haut en bas; Gray is broad-minded enough to provide appendices listing records of allotments and of nurseries and market-gardens in the county." (Archives, Volume 23, No. 98)"For anyone involved in researching historic parks and gardens a publication of this kind is both invaluable and a great rarity. Lucky Devon! The information contained in it is the kind that takes hours of painstaking trawling through record office indexes and catalogues to unearth. Todd Gray has done the sifting process for us and produced a short-cut to relevant archival, illustrated and published sources for the 226 parks and gardens listed. A wide range of users will find this book useful and fascinating, from those involved professionlly with historic parks and gardens to owners, local historians, or even media researchers in search of authenticity. The author has opened an Aladdin's cave of riches: let us hope that it is put to good use." (Landscape History)

• List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgementsLocation of Record Offices and LibrariesList of AbbreviationsIntroductionDevon's garden historyDevon's gardens and the surviving documentsBeginning garden research in DevonUsing the GuidesGarden descriptionsDocumentary sourcesPrinted sourcesIllustrationsAppendicesNote on editorial policyThe Gardens Appendices:Appendix One. Devon places and gardens visited by Revd John Swete as noted in his travel journals, 1789-1804Appendix Two. Allotment gardens in DevonAppendix Three. Devon nurseries and market-gardensAppendix Four. Devon garden societiesAppendix Five. Miscellaneous Devon recordsIndex