Northamptonshire

Gardens Trust

Caring for the County’s parks, gardens and designed landscapes

Welcome to Northamptonshire Gardens Trust …

… a registered charity passionate about protecting and conserving our county’s historic parks, gardens and designed landscapes. 

We are an enthusiastic group of volunteers who work in partnership to raise public awareness and appreciation of our enviable landscape heritage – from the recognised treasures and curiosities, to the less well-known surprises waiting to delight. Thoughtful conservation today can ensure a richer, biodiverse environment for future generations. 

We hope you will enjoy the opportunity of discovery through our website. If you are interested in being part of a welcoming group of people passionate about making a difference and having fun – JOIN US >

Annual General Meeting

Thursday 18 April at 7.30pm

Great Houghton Village Hall 

Join us as we put into place trustees for the following year, and other business matters, followed by a talk about the Billing Road Cemetery Project ─ which the Northamptonshire Gardens Trust (NGT) helped to launch. This is a good example of how the NGT makes an impact in the local community, after the NGT was awarded the first National Gardens Trust Community Grant. Although the cemetery closed for burials decades ago, it remains one of the most significant heritage assets within the Billing Road Conservation Area. 

Members free | Guests £2 













Planting a tree with the help of Capability Brown

For a flavour of what we do …

Why not watch our video of Capability Brown's work at Castle Ashby.

Financed by Heritage Lottery funding as part of the Capability Brown Festival 2016, this film was inspired by Alan Titchmarsh in the television series entitled Titchmarsh on Capability Brown (Channel 4 2015) where he celebrates the 300th anniversary of his horticultural hero by helping to create one of Brown’s lost masterpieces at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. The final programme of three showed him standing at Belvoir Castle accompanied by the Duchess of Rutland with a lap top in hand viewing drone footage of the landscape.

For more about this great landscape gardener, see Capability Brown >