Registered Parks and Gardens in England

Registered parks and gardens in England are historic designed landscapes that have been added to the National Heritage List for England because of their special historic interest. They may include country house parks, formal gardens, public parks, cemeteries, institutional landscapes, urban squares, and other planned landscapes that are considered nationally important. The register helps recognise and protect places whose layout, design, planting, and history make an important contribution to England’s heritage.

A registered park or garden is not simply any attractive green space. It is a landscape that has been assessed for its historic significance, taking into account factors such as age, rarity, design quality, state of survival, and historic associations. These places can range from large aristocratic estates and famous landscape gardens to Victorian public parks, historic cemeteries, college grounds, and other carefully designed settings.

Established in 1984, the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England now includes over 1,700 entries. Each registered park and garden has an official record on the National Heritage List for England (NHLE), the public database that also includes listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered battlefields, and other protected heritage assets. Registration does not automatically mean a site is open to the public, but it does mean its historic interest must be taken into account in the planning system.

What are Grade I, Grade II, and Grade II*

Registered parks and gardens in England are grouped into three grades to show their relative significance in a national context. Like listed buildings, they can be registered at Grade I, Grade II*, or Grade II.

Grade I is used for parks and gardens of exceptional interest. These are the most important registered landscapes in heritage terms and include some of England’s finest historic designed landscapes.

Grade II*, spoken as “Grade Two Star”, is used for particularly important parks and gardens of more than special interest. This grade sits between Grade I and Grade II and highlights landscapes with especially strong historic significance.

Grade II is used for parks and gardens of special interest. Although it is the lowest of the three grades, it still means the site is nationally important and worthy of recognition in the historic environment.

In this dataset, Grade I, Grade II*, and Grade II registered parks and gardens account for approximately 8%, 27%, and 65% of all entries in England, respectively.

The register begins in 1984 and continues to grow

The modern Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England was established in 1984. Since then, additional historic landscapes have continued to be assessed and added to the National Heritage List for England, while some existing entries have also been amended over time.

Registered parks and gardens were added to the NHLE at different times. The table below shows how many sites were first registered in each decade, grouped by grade, so you can see when most landscape designations took place.

Explore Registered Parks and Gardens in England

Use the interactive table below to explore registered parks and gardens in England more efficiently. You can filter the entries by grade to view only Grade I, Grade II*, or Grade II sites, and you can also filter by local authority district (LAD) to narrow the results to a specific area. The search field allows you to look up entries by name. To open the official record, click the NHLE list entry number, which links directly to the site’s profile page on the National Heritage List for England.

To view the location on a map, click the map icon before the LAD name to open the site in Google Maps. The Date column shows when the park or garden was first registered. For entries with a recorded amendment, the most recent amendment date is displayed after the entry name in square brackets.

Select a LAD : (not specify) Adur Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Babergh Barking and Dagenham Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Bexley Birmingham Blaby Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bolsover Bolton Boston Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Bracknell Forest Bradford Braintree Breckland Brent Brentwood Brighton and Hove Bristol, City of Broadland Bromley Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Calderdale Cambridge Camden Cannock Chase Canterbury Castle Point Central Bedfordshire Charnwood Chelmsford Cheltenham Cherwell Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London Colchester Cornwall Cotswold County Durham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumberland Dacorum Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Dales Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Ealing East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Riding of Yorkshire East Staffordshire East Suffolk Eastbourne Eastleigh Elmbridge Enfield Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fareham Fenland Folkestone and Hythe Forest of Dean Fylde Gateshead Gedling Gloucester Gosport Gravesham Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halton Hammersmith and Fulham Harborough Haringey Harlow Harrow Hart Hartlepool Hastings Havant Havering Herefordshire, County of Hertsmere High Peak Hillingdon Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Hounslow Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Isle of Wight Isles of Scilly Islington Kensington and Chelsea King's Lynn and West Norfolk Kingston upon Hull, City of Kingston upon Thames Kirklees Knowsley Lambeth Lancaster Leeds Leicester Lewes Lewisham Lichfield Lincoln Liverpool Luton Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Manchester Mansfield Medway Melton Merton Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Mole Valley New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle-under-Lyme Newham North Devon North East Derbyshire North East Lincolnshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Lincolnshire North Norfolk North Northamptonshire North Somerset North Tyneside North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire North Yorkshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oldham Oxford Pendle Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Redbridge Redcar and Cleveland Redditch Reigate and Banstead Ribble Valley Richmond upon Thames Rochdale Rochford Rossendale Rother Rotherham Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Rutland Salford Sandwell Sefton Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Gloucestershire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Norfolk South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Staffordshire South Tyneside Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spelthorne St Albans St. Helens Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Sunderland Surrey Heath Sutton Swale Swindon Tameside Tamworth Tandridge Teignbridge Telford and Wrekin Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Torridge Tower Hamlets Trafford Tunbridge Wells Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Wakefield Walsall Waltham Forest Wandsworth Warrington Warwick Watford Waverley Wealden Welwyn Hatfield West Berkshire West Devon West Lancashire West Lindsey West Northamptonshire West Oxfordshire West Suffolk Westminster Westmorland and Furness Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor and Maidenhead Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wyre Wyre Forest York OR Grade : (not specify) I II* II to filter the data table.

Data Source and Methodology

The information on this page is based on data from the National Heritage List for England (NHLE), the official public register of England’s nationally protected historic places. The NHLE is maintained by Historic England and provides the authoritative reference for list entries, including list entry numbers, names, grades, and registration dates. For users who want full official details, the direct NHLE link in the table is the best place to continue their search.

The local authority district information shown on this page is not taken directly from the displayed entry title. Instead, it is identified from the location data in the downloaded dataset. This helps place each registered park or garden within a local authority district for filtering and browsing purposes. However, users should note that a historic landscape may lie close to a boundary, and in some cases the registered site may extend across more than one authority.

The Google Maps links are generated from the available coordinate data. They are intended to provide a convenient reference point for quick browsing, rather than a definitive statement of the full legal extent of the registered landscape. This is especially important for large parks and gardens, which can cover extensive areas and may include multiple historic features within a wider designed setting.

Registration is a material consideration in planning decisions. Local planning authorities must consider the historic interest of a registered park or garden when relevant development proposals are made. They must consult Historic England where an application affects a Grade I or Grade II* registered site, and consult the Gardens Trust on applications affecting registered parks and gardens of any grade.

For research, planning, or formal heritage matters, it is always sensible to check the official NHLE entry alongside any map view. The NHLE remains the primary source for understanding the designation, description, and status of each registered park or garden