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Articles found in Style Tag: English Landscape Garden

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In the late 17th century, Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, described gardening as her “innocent diversion”, yet this apparently genteel pastime became an ambitious enterprise of cultivation, collecting and botanical investigation.

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English gardens have been deeply intertwined with Italian design since Roman antiquity, evolving through Tudor symmetry, classical 18th-century revivalism, and Victorian geometric formalism.

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A personal account of visiting and witnessing the remarkable restoration of one of England’s finest 18th-century landscape gardens by Tony Mott

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What has a 16th century Italian architect got to do with 18th century English gardens? How did the Grand Tour indirectly influence garden design features?

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Brown started work at Wimpole in 1767 and was one of more than 250 of his countrywide commissions.

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Take a walk around the landscape altered and de-formalised by Capability Brown in the 18th Century.

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Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown bought the Manor of Fenstanton and Hilton in 1767 which can be explored in this 2 mile walk by Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust.

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The English Landscape Garden developed throughout the eighteenth century and has been called our greatest contribution to art and culture.

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A unique site with four complete period gardens including 17th century, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian gardens.