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Summary

Culverthorpe Park, Culverthorpe

Full description

PRN 60635
A park around Culverthorpe Hall with woodland and formal features dating from the seventeenth century and onwards. The park is open to the south with a drive and approach to the hall through the lawn. There are extensive fishponds to the south stretching half a kilometre east-west. There is an eighteenth century wilderness or woodland to the east, scattered trees in the parkland to the north with a small pool or lake and icehouse to the north. There is a nineteenth century formal garden immediately beyond the terrace to the north of the hall. {1}

<1> ENGLISH HERITAGE, 1987, REGISTER OF PARKS AND GARDENS OF SPECIAL HISTORIC INTEREST IN ENGLAND, GD1972 (Index). SLI2865.

<2> 1946-98, RCHME, TF 0239/2 (Aerial Photograph). SLI193.

Monument Types

• FISHPOND (Post Medieval to Modern - 1600 AD to 2050 AD)
• GARDEN (Post Medieval to Modern - 1600 AD to 2050 AD)
• PARK (Post Medieval to Modern - 1600 AD to 2050 AD)
• FORMAL GARDEN (Post Medieval to Modern - 1800 AD to 2050 AD)

Associated Events

• Aerial photograph of the south of Culverthorpe Park and surrounding area

Protected Status

• Registered Park or Garden

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