Requesting Registration

If you own, have an interest in, or concern about a park or garden which you know is of particular historic interest, and think it should be considered for registration, then we would be pleased to know. Priority will be given to the assessment of sites threatened by immediate planning concerns, then to those where support for major grant-aid applications is sought. It is helpful if your request for us to consider a site for registration is submitted as indicated below.

Covering letter, addressed to the Head of Parks and Gardens Register, English Heritage, 1 Waterhouse Square, 138 - 142 Holborn,London EC1N 2ST, explaining the reason for the request and the urgency of the issues involved.

Details of the location of the site either as its national grid reference or in relation to the nearest settlement(s), and the local authority in which it lies.

Information on ownership if known.

A brief written statement explaining what you consider might make the park or garden of special historic interest in a national context, and an outline of its historic development.

A map clearly showing the site.

A brief description of the site as it is today, including mention of features within it of particular note.

A set of current photographs of the site clearly labelled with the name of site and a one-line description of what each individual photograph shows.

Supporting information: Copies of any documents which provide immediately relevant details of the historic evolution of the park or garden. References to any other known documents or sources of information on the history of the development of the site. Early editions of the Ordnance Survey maps are particularly useful, as are any other historic maps such as early county maps, tithe maps, enclosure maps and estate surveys.