More information : To the south and east of Garendon Hall (SK 51 NW 25) are extensive remians of fish ponds dyked and embanked and drainage. (1)
(Centred SK 500 193). Garendon Park (NAT), Deer Park (NAT) - parkland associated with Garendon Hall; extent shown as parkland stipple. Fish ponds (NAT) at SK 5012 1967 and SK 5003 1999. (2-3)
Garendon Park (NAT) shown as open ground with parkland trees. (4)
Earthwork ornamental pond of Post Medieval date, seen as
one large (15-50m) mixed shape negative feature. Previously
noted by authorities 2-3 as a fishpond.
Centred at:-SK 5012 1964
Mapped from AP's supplemented by the survey information of source 4. (5a)
(Morph No. FR.222.3.2)
Associated with the pond is the leat described below:-
Earthwork leat of Post Medieval date, seen as
an interrupted single linear feature defined by 1 ditch, max. length
1100m.
Centred at:-SK 4999 1903
Additional NGR's:
SK 5005 1951
SK 4969 1888
SK 4965 1870
Mapped using good quality AP's.
(Morph No. FR.222.3.1)
Probable cropmark and earthwork tree holes of Post Medieval date,
seen as about twenty-seven medium size (4-15m) rectangular negative
features, in a linear pattern.
Centred at:-SK 4984 1929
Additional NGR's:
SK 4979 1920
SK 4974 1925
Mapped using good quality AP's.
(Morph No. FR.222.11.1)
(5)
Garendon Park, an 18th century landscape park, at its most extensive c.300ha. Now (1986) much reduced and mainly returned to agriculture, with considerable urban encroachment to the east and cut through by M1 motorway to the west. The park lies on mainly level ground, rising slightly to the east and south-west, with belts of trees and small areas of woodland 0.5km west and 1km south-west of the site of Garendon Hall. A lake of c.1ha, partly silted up, lies 300m to the north-west of the hall. Park monuments and buidings designed by Ambrose Phillipps between 1729 and 1737 include the Temple of Venus (SK 41 NE 5), the Triumphal Arch (SK 41 NE 5) and the Obelisk. A summerhouse, probably mid-18th century with a pedimented portico, was destroyed c.1943. (6-6a)
Landscape park and gardens created during the 1730s by Ambrose Phillipps, an early member of the Society of Dilettanti. The park had been emparked by 1640. The 1730s improvements included the installation of avenues, rides with garden buildings placed at key points. The gardens were created by Phillipps and included an area of ornamental canals and pleasure grounds. (7)
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