Monument record 8048 - Possible Landscape Park at Kirby Hall

{2} Lord Hatton and 2nd edition 1791. House shown, but no enclosed park.

{3} Surveys made - show church and village in garden area.Garden accounts, trees, plants, agreement made with gardener for maintenance of garden. Proposals to make estate more economic - 1668.

{4}Now only a single house the seat of the Lord Viscount Hatton "The gardens here are beautiful, stocked with a great variety of exotic plants and adorned with a wilderness composed of almost the whole variety of English trees and ranged in an elegant order. Where the mount now is, a cart load of bones was dug up about 20 years ago. Mentions a view of Kirby in Lord Hatton's time (a painting) showing him returning in his coach. Lord Hatton sole owner of all Kirby enclosures. Will succeeded 1706.

{5} Mansion built 1572 on Priory manor, sold to Sir Christopher Hatton who acquired lay manor and completed enclosure.

{12} 1680 laid out, map 1720 - coarse details. 1706 neglected.

<2> Eyre T. (Revised by Jefferys T.), 1779, Map of the County of Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Map). SNN1852.

<3> Treswell R., 1586, Kirby (NRO FH 272/8), (unchecked) (Map). SNN46187.

<4> Bridges J., 1791, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, p.314 (unchecked) (Book). SNN77326.

<5> Allison K.J.; Beresford M.W.; Hurst J.G. et al, 1966, The Deserted Villages of Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Report). SNN39628.

<6> Anthony J., 1979, Gardens of Britain, p.103-06 (unchecked) (Series). SNN34164.

<7> STEANE J., Untitled Source, 383 (Uncertain). SNN59087.

<8> GOTCH J.A., 1940, Manor Houses of Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Book). SNN58776.

<9> 1975, HOUSE AND GARDEN, 400-1 (Uncertain). SNN59089.

<10> HADFIELD M., 1980, BRITISH GARDENERS, 146 (Uncertain). SNN59090.

<11> JEKYLL G., 1918, GARDEN ORNAMENT, 20 (Book). SNN54895.

<12> Taylor C., 1983, The Archaeology of Gardens, (unchecked) (Series). SNN41440.

<13> 1984, Kirby Hall?, p.139-56 (unchecked) (Article). SNN59091.

<14> EVELYN, 1654, Untitled Source, 134 (Uncertain). SNN59092.

<15> 1906, Country Life (1906), 558-65 (Journal). SNN59093.

<16> 1957, Country Life (1957), 444; 448-9 (Journal). SNN59094.

<17> Morton J., 1712, The Natural History of Northamptonshire, p.493 (unchecked) (Book). SNN10113.

<18> Mowl T.; Hickman C., 2008, The Historic Gardens of England: Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Series). SNN106082.

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Aug 4 2010 4:23PM