Gardens
The entire landscape garden was designed by Richard Woods, a contemporary of Capability Brown. The lakes were designed to look like a part of the River Thames and were joined with a small waterfall.
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century there was further landscaping and planting, supervised by Sir John Courtenay Throckmorton.
In 1908 Romaine-Walker created the formal terrace on the north front as part of the broad redevelopment commissioned at that time. Lady Fitzgerald supervised the construction of a water garden with rock paths on the north side of the lake.
The garden is occasionally open to the public under the NGS Gardens Open For Charity scheme with the entrance fee donated to the Richard Wellesley Memorial Transport fund.
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“the men
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The thousands of marriages
Lasting a little while longer:
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