Table of Contents

Part 1. Introduction: Tudor and early Stuart parks of Hertfordshire The sources Hunting in Hertfordshire's parks The medieval legacy Hertfordshire's parks 1485-1642 Who owned the parks? Summarising the main trends The new parks and new parkland Disparking Early park design The inhabitants of the parks Parks without deer? Poaching Park management Park buildings Part 2. Hertfordshire's parks and the Tudor and Stuart monarchies Introduction The crown estate and its parks in the county The royal family in Hertfordshire Part 3. Gazetteer of Tudor and early Stuart parks in Hertfordshire Introduction Gazetteer

About the Author

Anne Rowe is a freelance landscape historian. As well as being the author of Tudor and Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire (2019), she is the co-author, with Tom Williamson, of Hertfordshire: A landscape history (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2013). She co-ordinates the research work of the Hertfordshire Gardens Trust, is president of the East Herts Archaeological Society and lectures on various aspects of the county's landscape and garden history.