Book  (2000)  Page(s) 64.  
 
‘Abbotswood’: Arbuste. Floraison: rose moyen. Hilling, Grande-Bretagne, 1954. See ref Botanica’s Roses...

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 64.  
 
Abbotswood Mordern Shrub. Hilling 1954. Description...

Book  (1995)  Page(s) 38.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 79.  
 
'Abbotswood'. Hilling, U.K., 1954. A seedling rose which cropped up in a hedgerow in the kitchen garden at Abbotswood, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire; I subsequently named and distributed it. It is a vigorous plant, but more manageable than Rosa canina itself, and carries normal armature and light green foliage. The flowers are of true Dog Brier pink, fairly double, borne along the arching branches. Heps oval, orange-red, showy.  Sweetly scented like R. canina, and a spray cut with half-open blooms can be very charming.  6 feet by 6 feet.
From the following illustrations it is obvious that chance hybrids or forms of this type must have occurred before:
Andrews, Plate 6, Rosa canina var. flore pleno. Very similar to 'Abbotswood.
Lawrance, Plate 60, Double Dog Rose. Ditto.

Book  (Nov 1993)  Page(s) 21.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 1.  
 
Hybrid Canina (OGR), medium pink, 1954, Chance hybrid of R. canina x Unknown garden variety; Hilling. Flowers pink, double; habit similar to R. canina.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 24.  
 
Abbotswood ('Canina Abbotswood') Description and cultivation... The clear pink flowers are semi-double and very fragrant...

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 138.  
 
location 133/1, R. canina L. 'ABBODSWOOD', CANINAE, Hilling 1954, pink, semi-double, mild fragrance, medium size, cluster-flowered, very floriferous, bushy, arching, 2 m, many prickles, dark green medium size matte-glossy foliage, 5-7 leaflets, orange-red large glossy long-ovoid glandular fruit, reflexed foliaceous sepals, fall off singly and early

Article (website)  (1982)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Canina Abbotswood  (canina)  Arching sprays of double pink roses borne in profusion.  Of uncertain origin.  • F. H. W. (S) 6 x 6’. 

Book  (1962)  Page(s) 45, Pl. 2.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Abbotswood'. 1954. A seedling rose which cropped up in a hedgerow in the kitchen garden at Abbotswood, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, the home of Mr and Mrs Harry Ferguson. Mr. F. Tustin, then their head gardener, pointed it out to me and I subsequently named and distributed it. It is a vigorous plant, but more manageable than R. canina itself, and carries normal armature and light green foliage. The flowers are of true Dog Brier pink, fairly double, borne along the arching branches. Heps oval, orange-red, showy. Sweetly scented like R. canina, and a spray cut with half-open blooms can be very charming. Should reach 6 feet by 6 feet. (Photograph, Plate 2).
From the following illustrations it is obvious that chance hybrids or forms of this type must have occurred before:
Andrews, Plate 6, R. canina var. flore pleno. Very similar to 'Abbotswood'.
Lawrance, Plate 60, Double 'Dog Rose'. Ditto.