Site of Renaissance garden, of which fragments remain, laid out in the 1520’s by William Knight. It is arranged around C16 house and rare C12 Norman Hall: unique ambulatory overlooking terraced lawns; pond with island, one remaining of at least four medieval fish ponds; rose garden on site of earlier bowling green; tulip tree. Immediately to the west and south-west of the Court are the remains of a formal garden layout, consisting of 6 rectangular terraces on different levels and linked by paths and stone steps. Some of the terraces are surrounded by stone walls, others just by grassy scarps. The date of the garden is unknown but likely that at least some of it dates to the first half of the C16, when Knight was rebuilding the court. The ambulatory, also of that period, is aligned with the garden terraces. If these remains are as old as the ambulatory, possibly one of the earliest examples of a Renaissance garden in England.    

Part of the garden at Stanshaws Court, together with an additional area to the east was made into a public park during the C20.  

C18 site: recent 0.8ha. formal garden and  3.6ha arboretum;  C18 folly at the end wall of the stable block; ruined chapel. Walled garden and pond, walls unusually high. Recent planting includes an avenue of pink chestnuts leading to the River Boyd. At the end of the walled garden one yew stands where there were originally two, with a ha ha beyond.    

Remains of small country park, formerly Yate House: partly built over when house restored 1990; mature native and ornamental trees, some with railings; lodge and avenue. Of interest as the home of Dearman Birchall who kept a diary of daily life, published 1984 as Verey D. The Diary of a Victorian Squire.

Early C19 garden: enclosed by battlemented wall with corner turrets; garden building in form of a chapel; stone figure of Time; rockwork tunnel recently demolished.

Municipal park, formerly part of the Hill House estate, given to the public in 1909 by A.W. Page, and laid out over the next few years. Formal structure, bordered with chiefly Corsican Pine; some flowerbeds. Elaborate wooden shelter with clock tower in centre of park; wooden hexagonal bandstand; drinking fountain 1910; fine wrought iron gates 1913; WWI cenotaph.

Modern deer park on remains of C18 parkland on C13 deer park, partly built over: extensive terraces; icehouses; remains of fish ponds, later boating lake; blocks of woodland; well-timbered parkland retains its character despite agricultural use since demolition of house in 1981.

Remains of C15 fortified manor house site which included separate property now known as the Bee Garden with bee-boles in stone garden walls.

Combe garden on earlier monastic site: early terraces; sunken lawn; flagged courtyard; stone seat and trough; iron pump; statue of young orphan woman; early garden wall with finials; mature trees and Amelanchier walk.

Garden on earlier site: male and female Gingkos planted by plant collector Francis Tuckett who brought vermiculated stone from New Zealand for planting with alpines; specimen holm oak, horned acacia; many roses, crab apples, other unusual specimens; sundial; remains of vinery; coachman’s house; stable block.