Book  (1996)  Page(s) 84.  
 
'Hidcote Gold' (introduced Hilling 1948) perhaps hybrid R. hugonis x R. omeiensis pteracantha. Yellow, single, robust shrub with broad habit.

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 107.  
 
'Hidcote Gold' 1948 Apart from the fact that this plant has been growing for many years in Hidcote Manor...and was apparently raised there, I have no records of it. It is possibly a hybrid of Rosa hugonis, and the other parent is not doubt R. sericea pteracantha.

Website/Catalog  (1986)  Page(s) 21.  
 
Hidcote Gold..... Cg. 

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 20.  
 

Hidcote Gold (Sericea Var.) Bright yellow, small, single flowers on a robust, thorny, plant with fern-like leaves. 1948. Shade tolerant.  W. (SP) 7 x 4’.

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 104-105.  
 
The armature of R. hugonis is very variable....In plants found by Wilson ....like those raised at Kew from the seed sent by Father Hugh occasionally bore prickles on the strong shoots remarkably like those of R. sericea var. pteracantha. A yellow-flowered rose with similar wing-prickles was found by Farrer in Kansu...and was introduced by him. The existence of pteracanthous forms of R. hugonis suggests the possiblity at least that some roses in cultivation which combine translucent wing-prickles with yellow flowers are forms of R. hugonis and not hybrids between it and R. sericea var. pteracantha as usually supposed. Such plants are usually grouped together under the heading R. x pteragonis, this being the name given to a plant raised in Germany and supposed to be R. sericea var. pteracantha x R. hugonis. One of the roses in question is 'Hidcote Gold', of which the original plant grew at Hidcote Manor. It is said to have been raised from seeds collected by Forrest, though, if indeed it is of wild provenance, it is more likely to have been introduced by Farrer. Before Forrest attained his later renown, the prefix "F" before a seed-number indicated Farrer. 'Hidcote Gold' makes an arching bush to 6 ft. high and agrees with the plants seen by Farrer in the large, flattened prickles of its stems and the bright yellow flowers, which open in early summer.

Magazine  (1958)  Page(s) 1098.  
 
[From "Rampant Roses" by Clarence Elliott]
A rampant rose of which I am very fond is "Hidcote Gold." This, as its name suggests, originated, as far as English gardens are concerned, at Major Lawrence Johnston's Cotswold garden at Hidcote Manor, near Chipping Campden.