Firle Park
 

 

Firle Park is a grade II registered park within the South Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. ACTA prepared a restoration and management plan for the park as the basis for an application by the Firle Estate to Natural England for Higher Level Environmental Stewardship.

The following work was carried out:
tree and vegetation survey
analysis of the history of the park
assessment of the impact of restoration and management on archaeological and historic landscape features
proposals for planting, restoration of the ice house, ha ha and network of ponds part of which dated from the seventeenth-century formal landscape.

ACTA analysed the way that the park was formed from amalgamating commons with the open fields of Firle village and the deserted settlement of Heighton St Clare. Planting proposals took account of the archaeological potential of the site and its exposed downland edge location.

Other similar projects:
Alexandra Park
Dunorlan Park
St Leonards
Appuldurcombe
Stansted Park
Parham Park


 
Parts of the house date from the late middle ages. It is backed by terraces which may be late medieval and
looks out over a much more recent park
 
The estate intends to restore the ponds after a long period of neglect


  
Buildings survived within the park until the end of the nineteenth century
The park’s stock of trees dating from the late eighteenth-century work of William Emes and before was
depleted by Dutch Elm Disease and substantial planting has been necessary
 

 
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