What is a registered historic park or garden?
Historic parks and gardens are an especially fragile resource, which can easily be damaged beyond repair or lost forever.
In order to recognise sites which are of particular importance, English Heritage compiles a Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.
Planning
Northamptonshire currently has 30 nationally important, designed landscapes on this Register, which brings no additional statutory controls, but requires their consideration within planning policies. English Heritage is consulted on all planning applications which affect sites graded I or II*.
Locations
Use our Interactive mapping to see locations of registered historic parks and gardens, open the mapping, click onto Features and Places, then select the Environment category.
Further information
Further information on individual historic parks or gardens, including copies of the formal Register description is available from the Northamptonshire Sites and Monuments Record.