Not Just Green Spaces: 5 Buildings Designed by Capability Brown
His visionary landscape designs brought Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown lasting fame, punctuating the natural environment to this day with serpentine rivers,Continue Reading
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A Guide to the English Landscape Movement
Art and antiquity influenced garden design in England in the Georgian era.
9 Stunning Country Houses You Need to Visit
Here are nine of our favourite country houses and gardens from around the country.
Ee ‘beer’ gum – it’s Yorkshire Day!
This Yorkshire Day we’re taking a tour of God’s own county’s beer brewing heritage.
The Life and Landscapes of Humphry Repton
Humphry Repton, the last great landscape designer of the Georgian era, advised on some 400 schemes across a 27 yearContinue Reading
How to lay out a garden: the legacy of Edward Kemp (1817 -1891)
Edward Kemp was one of the most prolific and influential landscape designers of the Victorian era.
Early Colour Images of the English Garden
These amazing English homes and gardens represent or have witnessed some of the most important historic events.
New Highlights from the National Heritage List
David Garrard and Esther Godfrey are designation advisers at English Heritage, where their daily work involves advising the Department forContinue Reading
Protected Parks and Gardens to Visit this Autumn
As the nights grow shorter and the leaves get crispier, here are some of the best parks and gardens to visit this Autumn.
It’s Love – actually!
Here at Historic England, we love heritage and we love our movies, so to celebrate Valentine’s day we thought weContinue Reading