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Maxstoke Castle is one of the finest examples of a moated castle in the country and has been in the ownership of the Dilke (later Featherston- Dilke) family for some 400 years. The castle is formed of a perfect square and its origins date back to the early part of the 14th century. For a period [...]

CANCELLED Those of you who came to our AGM will recall the wonderful talk by Vanessa Berridge who described how the gardens at Kiftsgate Court have passed through the hands of several generations of the same family, but, unlike Borde Hill, Kiftsgate has been a female preserve. The gardens were first laid out in the 1920s [...]

CANCELLED Join us for this year’s Members’ Social Event at 2, Hathaway Drive, Warwick, CV34 5RD, from 2 pm - 4 pm. Diane and Philip James have kindly offered to open their small terraced garden in Woodloes, Warwick, for Warwickshire Gardens Trust members to enjoy the garden, with afternoon tea, fruit juices and cakes. Numbers will [...]

Stoneleigh Abbey and Park Stoneleigh CV8 2LF. What 3 Words firm.visits.these. 24 th September 2025 at 2.00pm Originally a Cistercian Abbey dating from 1154, it came into the possession of the Leigh family as a reward for granting hospitality to Charles 1 during the civil war. It remained in the Leigh family until 1990. Much of [...]

The AGM will be held in the Lammas Room at Hill Close Gardens, Warwick followed by a Lecture with Francesca Murray on the story of the Rothschild family’s passion for orchids at Gunnersbury, Tring Park and at Exbury, based on her book, The Eighth Wonder of the World, Exbury Gardens and The Rothschilds, co written with Lionel [...]

Research Opportunity Warwickshire Gardens Trust, in conjunction with Oxford Gardens Trust, has been able to obtain one of the three  grants awarded to The Gardens Trust (GT) by the Worshipful Company of Gardeners and the Finnis Scott Foundation, to run workshops using source materials and a site survey in order to understand historic designed landscape development. [...]

Stephen has carried out a series of archaeological investigations into landscape features of the park at Farnborough Hall revealing aspects of the design and features that were commissioned by the owners to enhance their enjoyment of the landscape. The preponderance of written sources have tended to record their interests and enthusiasms. By contrast, those who actually [...]

Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) was a social reformer, radical politician and imperialist who, despite never becoming prime minister, was one of the leading political figures of late Victorian and early Edwardian Britain. Chamberlain became deeply involved in the civic affairs of Birmingham where he was elected mayor in 1873. He became a social pioneer with innovative schemes [...]