Information for record number MWA144:
Merevale Park

Summary Merevale Park, a Park that was established during the Post Medieval period and was later landscaped. The site is situated south of Merevale Hall. Lovie recommended reviewing the Register entry
What Is It?  
Type: Park
Period: Post-medieval (1540 AD - 1750 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Merevale
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 28 97
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Registered Park or Garden (Grade: II)
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 A park is marked.
2 A park is marked by Dugdale and one is mentioned in the will of Robert, second Earl of Essex. Of late years the park has been restored by the present owner, Mr Dugdale, who bought the deer, now about 120 in number. The park occupies about 180 acres.
3 A stretch of pale was identified. The boundary probably followed Old Lane on the W and the parish boundary through park Hill Spinney on the S.
4 Landscape park, c120 ha, surrounding 19th century mansion and gardens. park mainly open from NE round to N and NW, with considerable woodland to SW, and S. Main park wall erected 1836. Merevale Lake 1/2 km to SE of Abbey, stretching N-S for 1km, and created in 1837 by W S Dugdale.
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7Lovie reports large park with Lake; part first established in C16th, restored mid-C19th; 2 pools to West; sunken garden with large yew trees appears to pre-date C19th garden; terraces by Nesfield.
 
Sources
Source No: 5
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Warwickshire Register Review Data Tables (North Warwickshire, Nuneaton & Bedworth, Rugby)
Author/originator: Lovie, Jonathan
Date: 1997
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Source No: 6
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Warwickshire Register Review Report & Recommendations
Author/originator: Lovie, Jonathan
Date: 1997
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Source No: 7
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Warwickshire Register Review Report & Recommendations
Author/originator: Lovie, Jonathan
Date: 1997
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England
Author/originator: English Heritage
Date: 1994
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title:
Author/originator: Shirley E
Date: 1867
Page Number: 161
Volume/Sheet: Deer Parks
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: Antiq of Warwickshire
Author/originator: Dugdale W
Date: 1730
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 14NE9
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date:
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Volume/Sheet: 14NE9
   
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Glossary

 
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none Registered Park or Garden Parks and gardens that are considered to be of historic importance are placed on a register. The register comprises a variety of town gardens, public parks and country estates. The main purpose of the register is to help ensure that the features and qualities that make the parks and gardens special are safeguarded if changes are being considered which could affect them.

The gardens on the register are divided into three grades in order to give some guidance about their significance, in a similar way to Listed Buildings. The majority of parks and gardens on the Register are of sufficient interest as to be designated as grade II. Some, however, are recognised as being of exceptional historic interest and are awarded a star giving them grade II* status. A small number are of international importance, and are classified as grade I.
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source OS Card Ordnance Survey Record Card. Before the 1970s the Ordnance Survey (OS) were responsible for recording archaeological monuments during mapping exercises. This helped the Ordnance Survey to decide which monuments to publish on maps. During these exercises the details of the monuments were written down on record cards. Copies of some of the cards are kept at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. The responsibility for recording archaeological monuments later passed to the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments. back
period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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period Post Medieval About 1540 AD to 1750 AD (the 16th century AD to the 18th century AD)

The Post Medieval period comes after the medieval period and before the Imperial period.

This period covers the second half of the reign of the Tudors (1485 – 1603), the reign of the Stuarts (1603 – 1702) and the beginning of the reign of the Hannoverians (1714 – 1836).
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monument POOL * A small body of water, either natural or artificial. back
monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument LAKE * A large body of water surrounded by land. back
monument PARK * An enclosed piece of land, generally large in area, used for hunting, the cultivation of trees, for grazing sheep and cattle or visual enjoyment. Use more specific type where known. back
monument BOUNDARY * The limit to an area as defined on a map or by a marker of some form, eg. BOUNDARY WALL. Use specific type where known. back
monument SUNKEN GARDEN * An often secluded garden set below the level of surrounding ground, usually surrounded with terraces. back
monument ABBEY * A religious house governed by an abbot or abbess. Use with narrow terms of DOUBLE HOUSE, MONASTERY or NUNNERY. back
monument PARISH BOUNDARY * The limit line of a parish. back
monument GARDEN * An enclosed piece of ground devoted to the cultivation of flowers, fruit or vegetables and/or recreational purposes. Use more specific type where known. back
monument LANDSCAPE PARK * Grounds, usually associated with a country house, laid out so as to produce the effect of natural scenery back
monument ROUND * A small, Iron Age/Romano-British enclosed settlement found in South West England. back
monument PARK WALL * A stone or brick wall enclosing a park. back
monument TERRACE * A row of houses attached to and adjoining one another and planned and built as one unit. back

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