Historic preservation Act 1913. The new structure involved the creation of the Ancient Monuments Board to oversee the protection of such monuments. Powers were given for the board, with Parliamentary approval, to issue preservation orders to protect monuments, and extended the public right of access to these. The term "monument" was extended to include the lands around it, allowing the protection of the wider landscape. The National Trust was founded in 1894 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter, and Hardwicke Canon Rawnsley as the first organisation of its type in the world. Its formal purpose is: The preservation for the benefit of
Eynesbury Hardwicke Eynesbury Hardwicke Eynesbury Hardwicke was a civil parish in the Huntingdonshire part of Cambridgeshire, England. Eynesbury Hardwicke was historically part of Eynesbury parish. That parish was split in two in 1895; the village of Eynesbury was incorporated into the town of St Neots. Eynesbury Hardwicke parish was formed from the remaining 2,641 acres (10.7 km²) of countryside. Caldecote Manor, Eynesbury Hardwicke House and the site of an abandoned village, Weald, are in the former parish. It did not contain a parish church or settlement—though by the time of its dissolution Eynesbury had expanded into the parish—but it did have a