Project Showcase
Hackfall, Nr Ripon
Winner of White Rose Landscape Architecture Award 2008
Landscape architects: The Landscape Agency, York
Architect: Linda Lockett
Client: The Hackfall Trust
Photographer: Clare Michael
Hackfall, between Ripon and Masham, is one of Yorkshire’s most important historic designed landscapes. Conceived in the 18th Century by John Aislabie, for the next 200 years visitors including Turner and Wordsworth flocked to the area, yet it was almost lost forever due to a lack of maintenance from the 1930s onwards. Fortunately a small group of local historians had a vision to restore the gardens and appointed a team of professionals who clearly shared their passion for this landscape.
Having secured a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and in partnership with the Woodland Trust, the vision has now become a reality. Follies and grottoes have been saved, important vistas reopened and ponds and waterfalls restored whilst public access has once again been enabled.