LPGT launches London Gardens Online

Last year London Parks & Gardens Trust successfully raised funds to make information from our Inventory of Historic Green Spaces widely available as a dedicated website. The 3-year project commenced in December 2008 and will be completed by late 2011, with new research, photography and historic images brought in to illustrate the entries.

Although not all the information will available online until then, we wanted to launch London Gardens Online early on and it is now live at: http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/.

In the first instance it includes core information on sites on the Inventory Database, which now comprises over 2430 entries, and these are gradually being uploaded. We wanted to make some information available now and to give people a taster of the full website, but we’d also like to encourage people to contribute comments, knowledge and feedback.

Funding support has been received from The Pilgrim Trust, the J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust, the Basil Samuel Charitable Trust and an English Heritage Regional Capacity Building Grant.

The website has been designed and developed by Footmark Media Ltd, the team who created the award-winning www.parkexplorer.org.uk for LPGT’s education project.