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Warwickshire – Compton Verney
1768 – 1770s Compton Verney CV35 9HZ Compton Verney has like many a Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown landscape seen much change, yet surprisingly, it remains visually quite intact. The mansion sits in a sh… more →
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Day of a Thousand Plugs
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wrote 2 days ago: Out in the grounds at Compton Verney tomorrow, we’re playing host to a group of volunteers on … more →
Down Your Wold Launches!
wrote 1 week ago: If you want to find out about the heritage in your area then the Down Your Wold Project is for you! … more →
Cyclopes & Turtle Soup - A Visit to Burghley House
wrote 2 weeks ago: April has been such a busy month that I now have loads to tell you! I’m working on some really excit … more →
CAPABILITY BROWN by Dorothy Stroud.
wrote 2 weeks ago: Published by Country Life Ltd, Faber & Faber. Considered by many to be the master work on Brown, … more →
Warwickshire – Compton Verney
wrote 1 month ago: 1768 – 1770s Compton Verney CV35 9HZ Compton Verney has like many a Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown land … more →
Capability Gray
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wrote 1 month ago: I may not be installing giant lakes, building fake temples, or displacing villages full of peasants, … more →
Learning for the Third Age
wrote 1 month ago: Learning is a lifelong activity: there’s no such thing as a “finishing” school. That precept is at t … more →
CAPABILITY BROWN AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LANDSCAPE
wrote 1 month ago: by Roger Turner. Published by Phillimore & co. ISBN 1 86077 114 9 To those with ‘a poet’s feeli … more →
Chilham Castle Kent
wrote 1 month ago: Another fascinating gem of a country house in Kent. There has been a castle on the hill top from Sax … more →
BLENHEIMS CASCADE....
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wrote 2 months ago: Just a couple of miles from SHpics winter retreat are the gardens of Blenheim Palace… Some anc … more →
CAPABILITY BROWN AND THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE GARDEN.
wrote 2 months ago: CAPABILITY BROWN AND THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE GARDEN by LAURA MAYER. Shire Publications. ISBN-13: 978 … more →
Essex - Audley End
wrote 2 months ago: 1763 – c1767 Saffron Walden CB11 4JF Google Map – click here Research for this Capabilit … more →
In Remembrance of Capability Brown...
wrote 3 months ago: ‘Capability’ Brown is responsible for creating many of our much loved landscapes. He is … more →
Preservation and the Real Downton Abbey
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wrote 3 months ago: Image via The Chicago Maroon The third season of Downton Abbey currently has its American audience o … more →
Twelfth of March*
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wrote 3 months ago: How time flies… on 12 March it’ll be a year since I started working as Assistant Gardene … more →
The Bath House, Corsham Court c1761-3
wrote 4 months ago: The Bath House – British Listed Buildings Corsham Court Gardens … more →
Ha-Ha's and Fisherwick
wrote 4 months ago: Many times I’ve heard people mention ‘ha-ha’ in conversation; and many a time I’ve liste … more →
Downton Abbey and the English Garden
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wrote 4 months ago: Well a year has come and gone and a new year is upon us. For the third year in a row the New Year a … more →
Steeped in Kirkharle Interpretation
wrote 4 months ago: I find myself in Kirkharle Courtyard, in a lower lying section of the breathtakingly beautiful North … more →
