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Each year parks and gardens face a range of modern-day threats that can compromise their value and long-term survival.

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The Picturesque was a very popular idea in the mid to late eighteenth century, initially focussing on viewing the natural landscape as if it were a picture in a frame, although it later evolved into a more complex set of aesthetic ideals and influenced fashions in English landscape garden design.

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

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Parks and gardens contain lots of interesting features, many of which may have been built years, decades or centuries ago. How many can you spot in your local park or garden and when do you think they were created?

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A walk round this exceptional English landscape garden made by Henry Hoare in the mid-18th century demonstrating many of the design principles that distinguished this type of garden from the very formal gardens of the 17th century.

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Known for his visionary “Red Books” that combined art, narrative and design, Repton’s work bridged the grandeur of Capability Brown with a more intimate, picturesque style that endures in the English landscape today.