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Landshipping House Garden Remains is a post-medieval and modern garden site in Wales, protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw. The garden lies upon bedrock of the Pennine and South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation, a Westphalian-period deposit comprising mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete. This complex geology has shaped both the landscape and the practical constraints of cultivation at the site.
The remains constitute evidence of domestic horticulture spanning from the post-medieval period through to modern times, reflecting changing tastes and practices in garden design and maintenance. The survival of garden features within the archaeological record offers insight into the everyday landscape of a rural or semi-rural Welsh holding, documenting how inhabitants modified and worked their immediate surroundings across several centuries.
The monument's protection recognises the historical and archaeological significance of garden archaeology in Wales. Such sites, though often less prominently documented than buildings, preserve valuable information about food production, ornamental planting, social status and the evolution of domestic space in historic Welsh communities. The stratified deposits and any remaining structural features contribute to understanding land use and settlement patterns in the region.
Landshipping House Garden Remains is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference PE454. View the official record →
Landshipping House Garden Remains is a post-medieval and modern garden site in Wales, protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference PE454.
Landshipping House Garden Remains dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a garden. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Landshipping House Garden Remains is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is PE454.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Burton Beach Overlord Hard (7.2 km), Park Camp (7.4 km), Carew Bridge (7.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Landshipping House Garden Remains's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Landshipping House Garden Remains stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.