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The Vale of Glamorgan is a county borough in south-east Wales. It covers an area of 331 km (128 sq mi) and in 2021 the population was approximately 132,500.

The Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales was established in 2002 and given statutory status in 2022. It is administered by Cadw, the historic environment agency of the Welsh Government. Elisabeth Whittle described Cadw as having a "somewhat special and guiding role" in the preservation of historic parks and gardens, since they are "an integral part of Welsh archaeological and architectural heritage". The register includes just under 400 sites, ranging from gardens of private houses, to cemeteries and public parks. Parks and gardens are listed at one of three grades, matching the grading system used for listed buildings. Grade I is the highest grade, for sites of exceptional interest; Grade II*, the next highest, denotes parks and gardens of great quality; while Grade II denotes sites of special interest.

There are 18 registered parks and gardens in the Vale of Glamorgan. Two are listed at Grade I, four at Grade II* and 12 at Grade II.

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List of parks and gardens

List of parks and gardens

Name	Location Grid Ref. Geo-coordinates	Date Listed	Description / Notes	Grade	Reference Number	Image
Alexandra Park	Penarth ST1867871528 51°26′11″N 3°10′12″W / 51.436417°N 3.170066°W / 51.436417; -3.170066 (Alexandra Park)	1 February 2022	Public park A well-preserved Edwardian public park with terracing and a network of winding paths. The grade II listed war memorial cenotaph was designed by Goscombe John and unveiled on 11 November 1924.	II*	PGW(Gm)37(GLA)
Coedarhydyglyn	St Georges super Ely ST1025775142 51°28′04″N 3°17′32″W / 51.467641°N 3.292114°W / 51.467641; -3.292114 (Coedarhydyglyn)	1 February 2022	Park, country house garden and kitchen garden The landscape park was laid out at around the same time as the building of the house (1820s). A Japanese-style garden was developed in the early twentieth century. The walled kitchen garden located to the south-west of the house is thought to have been made for the old house (built 1767) that was demolished in 1823.	II*	PGW(Gm)40(GLA)
Cold Knap Park	Barry ST1006266426 51°23′21″N 3°17′34″W / 51.38925°N 3.292707°W / 51.38925; -3.292707 (Cold Knap Park)	1 February 2022	Public park The dominant feature of this 1920s park is a boating lake in the shape of a Welsh harp. A promenade runs along the south-west side of the park. The south-east area of the park is the site of a lido that closed in 1996.	II	PGW(Gm)58(GLA)
Cwrt-yr-ala	Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith ST1426273035 51°26′58″N 3°14′02″W / 51.449321°N 3.233961°W / 51.449321; -3.233961 (Cwrt-yr-ala)	1 February 2022	Country house garden and kitchen garden Much of the layout of the gardens and grounds relates to a house built in the 1820s. When this was replaced with a neo-Georgian mansion in 1939–40 the gardens took their present form which overlays the earlier layout. The kitchen garden is thought to date to the mid-nineteenth century.	II	PGW(Gm)42(GLA)
Dunraven Park	St Brides Major SS8895872995 51°26′40″N 3°35′53″W / 51.444564°N 3.597992°W / 51.444564; -3.597992 (Dunraven Park)	1 February 2022	Deer park, country house garden and walled garden The pleasure gardens are probably contemporary with the building of a large gothic mansion in 1802–1806. The walled garden area has undergone several phases of development but have been enclosures here since at least the sixteenth century. The park is thought to date from the seventeenth century. To the west of the house is a coastal headland occupied by the remains of an iron age hillfort.	II	PGW(Gm)4(GLA)
Dyffryn	Wenvoe ST0946672668 51°26′43″N 3°18′10″W / 51.445267°N 3.302865°W / 51.445267; -3.302865 (Dyffryn)	1 February 2022	Public park, walled garden and park A partnership between horticulturalist and owner Reginald Cory and landscape architect Thomas Mawson created what Cadw describe as "the grandest and most outstanding Edwardian gardens in Wales". The walled garden is possibly sixteenth or seventeenth century.	I	PGW(Gm)32(GLA)
Ewenny Priory	Ewenny SS9136777729 51°29′15″N 3°33′53″W / 51.487581°N 3.564784°W / 51.487581; -3.564784 (Ewenny Priory)	1 February 2022	Park, country house garden and kitchen garden The landscape gardens ae contemporary with the house built in 1803–1805 within the precinct of a Benedictine priory (founded c. 1141). The kitchen garden was created in the early nineteenth century by the addition of wall to enclose an area bounded on three sides by medieval priory walls. The park, which has its origins as a sixteenth-century deer park, lies mostly to the south of the house and gardens.	II	PGW(Gm)14(GLA)
Fonmon Castle	Rhoose ST0450468125 51°24′13″N 3°22′23″W / 51.403614°N 3.373032°W / 51.403614; -3.373032 (Fonmon Castle)	1 February 2022	Country house garden and kitchen garden The Fonmon Brook runs through a valley in the east of the estate in which there are informal gardens and woodland grounds. The lawns, terraced and walled gardens, which have their origins in the period 1656–1674 but with later modifications, form an attractive setting for the grade I listed medieval castle	II	PGW(Gm)39(GLA)
Hensol Castle	Pendoylan ST0430678832 51°29′59″N 3°22′44″W / 51.499834°N 3.378775°W / 51.499834; -3.378775 (Hensol Castle)	1 February 2022	Park, country house garden and kitchen garden The mid-eighteenth-century landscape park includes a large lake with an island folly. There are wooded grounds at the north of the lake. To the north of the house is the kitchen garden, to its east and west are informal gardens. The formal garden south of the house is post-1927 when the park and house were converted into a hospital.	II	PGW(Gm)41(GLA)
Italian Gardens	Penarth ST1878271219 51°26′01″N 3°10′07″W / 51.433654°N 3.1685°W / 51.433654; -3.1685 (Italian Gardens)	1 February 2022	Public park An Edwardian-style public garden laid out and opened in 1926. The garden, which is surrounded by iron railings, consists of two terraces and was designed principally as a rock garden.	II	PGW(Gm)35(GLA)
Llanmihangel Place	Llandow SS9795172055 51°26′16″N 3°28′06″W / 51.437798°N 3.468353°W / 51.437798; -3.468353 (Llanmihangel Place)	1 February 2022	Garden terrace and former orchard The layout of the gardens, which probably dates to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, appears largely unchanged from that recorded in maps of the 1770s. A rubble-built stone wall encloses the main garden. The eastern third is divided into three terraces and the two-thirds of the walled enclosure which was occupied by the orchard is now lightly wooded with a assortment of trees.	II*	PGW(Gm)34(GLA)
Llantrithyd Place	Llancarfan ST0481173603 51°27′11″N 3°22′12″W / 51.452917°N 3.370093°W / 51.452917; -3.370093 (Llantrithyd Place)	1 February 2022	Deer park and country house garden The ruined house and gardens, with their complex formal layout of terraces, walks and ponds, date to the mid to late sixteenth century. The exceptionally complete deer park is mid-seventeenth century.	II*	PGW(Gm)43(GLA)
Old Beaupre	Llanfiar ST0083272118 51°26′20″N 3°25′37″W / 51.438876°N 3.426922°W / 51.438876; -3.426922 (Old Beaupre)	1 February 2022	Country house garden The earthwork remains of extensive formal gardens that are contemporary with the rebuilding of the house in second half of the sixteenth century and included terraces, walks and ponds.	II	PGW(Gm)38(GLA)
Romilly Park	Barry ST1009167005 51°23′40″N 3°17′33″W / 51.39446°N 3.292437°W / 51.39446; -3.292437 (Romilly Park)	1 February 2022	Public park Laid out during the Edwardian period with features including landscaped pathways, a bowling green and tennis courts. In a separate area, to the north of the main park, is a Gorsedd circle unveiled in 1920 when the National Eisteddfod held in Barry.	II	PGW(Gm)63(GLA)
Pwll-yr-wrach	Colwinston SS9522275409 51°28′03″N 3°30′31″W / 51.467456°N 3.508595°W / 51.467456; -3.508595 (Pwll-yr-wrach)	1 February 2022	Country house garden and kitchen garden The Georgian mansion (built c. 1770) is flanked on its east and west by a pair of single-storey pavilions of stone with slate roofs. The walled garden, to the west of the house, is a former kitchen garden and now mostly ornamental.	II	PGW(Gm)44(GLA)
St Donat's Castle	St Donats SS9323268136 51°24′06″N 3°32′06″W / 51.401703°N 3.535038°W / 51.401703; -3.535038 (St Donat's Castle)	1 February 2022	Pleasure garden and terraced garden The former deer parks lie to the east and west of the castle and are probably medieval in origin. The kitchen garden is to the north of the castle. To the south of the castle are terraced gardens originally built in the second half of the sixteenth century. These include a rose garden and a Tudor garden with statues of heraldic animals.	I	PGW(Gm)30(GLA)
Wenvoe Castle	Wenvoe ST1184871245 51°25′58″N 3°16′06″W / 51.432851°N 3.268244°W / 51.432851; -3.268244 (Wenvoe Castle)	1 February 2022	Park, country house garden and kitchen garden The medium-sized landscape park of about 324 acres (131 ha) was largely created in the mid-eighteenth century. The area to the south of the house is now occupied by the golf course and to the south of this is a large area of deciduous woodland.	II	PGW(Gm)33(GLA)
Windsor Gardens	Penarth ST1873071119 51°25′58″N 3°10′09″W / 51.432747°N 3.169224°W / 51.432747; -3.169224 (Windsor Gardens)	1 February 2022	Public park The gardens, which were completed in the 1880s, are divided into two sections. They occupy a long narrow strip of land at the top of the cliff above the sea front esplanade. Both sections are laid out and planted in the same style, but there is a bandstand in the northern half.	II	PGW(Gm)36(GLA)

See also

• List of scheduled monuments in the Vale of Glamorgan
• Grade I listed buildings in the Vale of Glamorgan
• Grade II* listed buildings in the Vale of Glamorgan

Notes

1. Sometimes known as OSGB36, the grid reference is based on the British national grid reference system used by the Ordnance Survey.

References

1. "The Vale of Glamorgan - Population Density (QS102EW)". UKCensusdata.com. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
2. "Labour Market Profile - Vale of Glamorgan". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
3. "Historic Parks and Gardens". Cadw. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012.
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5. Whittle 1992, p. 6.
6. ^ "Understanding registered historic parks & gardens: 2. What is registration?". Cadw. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
7. "Alexandra Park, Penarth (301673)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
8. Cadw. "Alexandra Park (PGW(Gm)37(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
9. Cadw. "Cenotaph (13340)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
10. "Coedarhydyglyn Park, St Nicholas, Cardiff (700207)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
11. "Coedarhydyglyn Garden, St Nicholas, Cardiff (265812)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
12. "Coedarhydyglyn Walled Garden, St Nicholas, Cardiff (265811)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
13. Cadw. "Coedarhydyglyn (PGW(Gm)40(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
14. "Cold Knap Park, Barry (301668)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
15. Cadw. "Cold Knap Park (PGW(Gm)58(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
16. "Cwrt-yr-Ala Garden, Michaelstone-Le-Pit (301671)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
17. "Cwrt-yr-ala Kitchen Garden, Michaelton-le-pit (700136)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
18. Cadw. "Cwrt-yr-ala (PGW(Gm)42(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
19. "Dunraven Castle Deerpark (700001)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
20. "Dunraven Castle Garden, St Brides Major (265800)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
21. Cadw. "Boundary and Dividing Walls to Walled Gardens (21787)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
22. Cadw. "Dunraven Park (PGW(Gm)4(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
23. Cadw. "Dunraven Castle Hillfort (GM350)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
24. "Dyffryn House Gardens, St Nicholas, Cardiff (307771)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
25. "Dyffryn House Walled Garden, St Nicholas, Cardiff (23077)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
26. "Dyffryn House Park, St Nicholas, Cardiff (700370)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
27. Cadw. "Dyffryn Gardens (PGW(Gm)32(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
28. "Ewenny Priory Park, Bridgend (700168)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
29. "Ewenny Priory Garden, Bridgend (265767)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
30. "Ewenny Priory Kitchen Garden, Bridgend (700169)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
31. Cadw. "Ewenny Priory (PGW(Gm)14(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
32. "Fonmon Castle Garden, Rhoose (265829)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
33. "Fonmon Castle Kitchen Garden, Rhoose (700192)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
34. Cadw. "Fonmon Castle (PGW(Gm)39(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
35. Cadw. "Walls of Walled Gardens at Fonmon Castle (83164)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
36. Cadw. "Fonmon Castle (13597)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
37. "Hensol Castle Pleasure Grounds, Pontyclun (265778)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
38. "Hensol Castle Kitchen Garden, Pontyclun (700161)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
39. Cadw. "Hensol Castle (PGW(Gm)41(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
40. "Italian Gardens, Penarth (301672)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
41. Cadw. "Italian Gardens (PGW(Gm)35(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
42. "Llanmihangel Place, Terrace and Steps, Llanmihangel (19188)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
43. "Llanmihangel Place Orchard Garden, Llanmihangel (265808)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
44. Cadw. "Llanmihangel Place (PGW(Gm)34(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
45. "Llantrithyd House, Garden, Llantrithyd (265813)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
46. Cadw. "Llantrithyd Place (PGW(Gm)43(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
47. "Old Beaupre Castle Garden Earthworks, Llanblethian (266278)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
48. Cadw. "Old Beaupre (PGW(Gm)38(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
49. "Romilly Park, Barry (301669)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
50. Cadw. "Romilly Park (PGW(Gm)63(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
51. "Pwll-y-Wrach Garden, Colwinston (265802)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
52. "Pwll-y-wrach Kitchen Garden, Colwinston (700156)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
53. Cadw. "Pwll-yr-wrach (PGW(Gm)44(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
54. "St Donat's Castle Outer Gardens, St Donat's (700318)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
55. "St Donat's Castle Tudor Terraced Gardens, St Donat's (700317)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
56. Cadw. "St Donat's Castle (PGW(Gm)30(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
57. "Wenvoe Castle Park, Cardiff (700315)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
58. "Wenvoe Castle Gardens and Grounds, Cardiff (265817)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
59. "Wenvoe Castle Kitchen Garden, Cardiff (700316)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
60. Cadw. "Wenvoe Castle (PGW(Gm)33(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
61. "Windsor Gardens, Penarth (301674)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
62. Cadw. "Windsor Gardens (PGW(Gm)36(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2023.

Bibliography

• Whittle, Elisabeth (1992). The Historic Gardens of Wales: An Introduction to Parks and Gardens in the History of Wales. Cardiff: Cadw. ISBN 978-0-117-01578-4.

v t e Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales
Anglesey Blaenau Gwent Bridgend Caerphilly Cardiff Carmarthenshire Ceredigion Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd Merthyr Tydfil Monmouthshire Neath Port Talbot Newport Pembrokeshire Powys Rhondda Cynon Taf Swansea Torfaen Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham
Wales

v t e Vale of Glamorgan County Borough
Vale of Glamorgan Council
Main settlements	Barry template Cowbridge Llantwit Major Penarth
Communities	Barry Colwinston Cowbridge with Llanblethian Dinas Powys Ewenny Llanmaes Llancarfan Llandough Llandow Llanfair Llangan Llantwit Major Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith Penarth Pendoylan Penllyn Peterston-super-Ely Rhoose St Athan St Bride's Major St Donats St Georges-super-Ely St Nicholas and Bonvilston Sully and Lavernock Welsh St Donats Wenvoe Wick
Villages	Aberthaw Aberthin Broughton Bonvilston Boverton Boys Village Clawdd Coch Clemenstone Colwinston Corntown Culverhouse Cross Dinas Powys Downs Drope Dyffryn Eglwys Brewis Ewenny Flemingston Fonmon Font-y-Gary Frampton Gileston Goldsland Graig Penllyn Great Hamston Gwern-y-Steeple Kenson Lavernock Lidmore Llampha Llanmaes Llanbethery Llanblethian Llancadle Llancarfan Llandough (near Cowbridge) Llandough (near Penarth) Llandow Llangan Llanmihangel Llansannor Llantrithyd Llantwithyn Llysworney Maendy Marcross Michaelston-le-Pit Middlecross Moulton Newton Northcliff Nurston Ogmore Ogmore-by-Sea Pancross Pendoylan Penmark Pentre Meyrick Peterston-super-Ely Pen-y-Lan Picketston Prisk Rhoose Sigingstone St Andrews Major St Brides Major Southerndown St Athan St Donats St Georges super Ely St Hilary St Mary Church St Mary Hill St Nicholas St Lythans Sully Sutton The Herberts Tre-Aubrey Tredodridge Treguff Trerhyngyll Twyn-yr-Odyn Walterston Wenvoe Wick Wrinstone Ystradowen
Landmarks and listed buildings	The Bendricks The Bulwarks, Porthkerry The Captain's Wife Cosmeston Medieval Village Cosmeston Lakes Country Park Dimlands Dunraven Castle Egerton Grey Country House Hotel Porthkerry Park St Lythans burial chamber Tinkinswood Welsh Hawking Centre Wenvoe Castle Grade I Church of St John the Baptist Church of the Holy Cross, Cowbridge Coedarhydyglyn Ewenny Priory Fonmon Castle Hensol Castle Ogmore Castle Old Beaupre Castle St Donat's Castle St Illtyd's Church, Llantwit Major Grade II* Barry Castle The Blue Anchor Inn Cowbridge Grammar School Cowbridge Town Hall Dyffryn Gardens Gileston Manor Llandough Castle St Quintins Castle
Geography	Breaksea Point East Aberthaw Coast Collugh Beach Sully Island Tresilian Bay Afon Alun Afon Col-huw Cadoxton River Ewenny River Nant y Stepsau River Kenson River Thaw River Waycock
Economy	Barry Memorial Hall Barry Island Pleasure Park Barry Council Office and Library Barry Dock Offices Aberthaw Power Station Aberthaw Cement Works Llandow Industrial Estate Wenvoe Quarry Wenvoe transmitting station
Transport	Cardiff Airport A48 road A4050 road A4226 road B4265 road Barry Tourist Railway Stations Barry Barry Docks Barry Island Cadaxton Cogan Dinas Powys Dingle Road Eastbrook Llantwit Major Penarth Rhoose Cardiff
Sport	Barry Town United F.C. Glamorganshire Golf Club Southerndown Golf Club Wenvoe Castle Golf Club
Topics	Schools SSSIs Scheduled Monuments Registered parks and gardens Lord Lieutenants High Sheriffs Country houses Museums Books Public art
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