Explore a variety of maps, photos, and documents for your research on landscapes, parks, or gardens, both large and small.
The types of records that could help you are:
- Early county maps, from the 16th century onwards
- Estate maps dating back to the 16th century
- Early Ordnance Survey maps (from around 1878)
- Aerial photographs from the 1940s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s
- Photographs from the 19th century onwards
- Magazine articles and pamphlets
- Paintings and illustrations
- Estate papers and sales particulars
- Wills from the 15th century onwards
- Designer’s plans, including Humphry Repton's Red Books for Panshanger and Tewin Water
- Reports by the Hertfordshire Gardens Trust.