The AGM is on Friday 10 May at 2.30pm. Please join us. For more details click
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The AGM is on Friday 10 May at 2.30pm. Please join us. For more details click 〰️
A conservation charity working to protect the county’s historic parks and gardens for future generations
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We work with garden owners and local and national bodies to highlight, protect and encourage the conservation and restoration of designed landscapes, ranging from stately homes to public parks, cottage gardens to cemeteries. Principally funded by over 450 members, we run visits, lectures and events where members can share their interest and knowledge in a sociable atmosphere.
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History of the Trusts
The County Gardens Trusts were started in 1989 to promote the conservation of historic parks and gardens, Dorset being one of the first.
The Trusts are registered charities and come under the umbrella of The Gardens Trust, which acts on their behalf when dealing with central government and national bodies. The Gardens Trust was formed in July 2015 by a merger of the Association of Gardens Trusts and the Garden History Society.
Our aim is to ensure that all Dorset’s significant designed landscapes, rural and urban, including gardens and parks, churchyards, public parks, open spaces, cottage gardens, townscapes and cemeteries, whatever their size, are given due recognition so that the pleasure and value of this heritage can be appreciated by us and by future generations. No historic landscape, rural or urban should be lost through ignorance or neglect.