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Capability Brown, the Glossary

Lancelot "Capability" Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783) was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.^[1]

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Adderbury

Adderbury is a winding linear village and rural civil parish about south of Banbury in northern Oxfordshire, England.

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Addington Palace

Addington Palace is an 18th-century mansion in Addington located within the London Borough of Croydon.

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Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Fred Titchmarsh HonFSE (born 2 May 1949) is an English gardener and broadcaster. Capability Brown and Alan Titchmarsh are English gardeners.

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Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen).

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.

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Alnwick Castle

Alnwick Castle is a castle and country house in Alnwick in the English county of Northumberland.

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Althorp

Althorp (popularly pronounced) is a Grade I listed stately home and estate in the civil parish of Althorp, in West Northamptonshire, England of about.

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Ampthill

Ampthill is a town and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.

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Ampthill Park

Ampthill Park and Ampthill Park House is a country estate in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England.

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André Le Nôtre

André Le Nôtre (12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France.

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Anne FitzPatrick, Countess of Upper Ossory

Anne FitzPatrick, Countess of Upper Ossory (née Liddell, formerly Anne FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton) was an English noblewoman and the first wife of Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton.

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Appuldurcombe House

Appuldurcombe House (also spelt Appledorecombe or Appledore Combe) is the shell of a large 18th-century English Baroque country house of the Worsley family.

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Ashburnham Place

Ashburnham Place is an English country house, now used as a Christian conference and prayer centre, five miles west of Battle, East Sussex.

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Aske Hall

Aske Hall is a Georgian country house, with parkland attributed to Capability Brown, north of Richmond, North Yorkshire, England.

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Audley End House

Audley End House is a largely early 17th-century country house outside Saffron Walden, Essex, England.

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Aynhoe Park

Aynhoe Park (alternately known as Aynho Park) is a 17th-century country estate consisting of land and buildings that were rebuilt after the English Civil War on the southern edge of the stone-built village of Aynho, Northamptonshire, England.

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Badminton House

Badminton House is a large country house and Grade I Listed Building in Badminton, Gloucestershire, England, which has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century.

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Ballyfin

Ballyfin (or alternatively "town of Fionn") is a village and parish in the Slieve Bloom Mountains in County Laois, Ireland.

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Basildon Park

Basildon Park is a country house situated 2 miles (3 kilometres) south of Goring-on-Thames and Streatley in Berkshire, between the villages of Upper Basildon and Lower Basildon.

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Bath House at Corsham Court

The Bath House at Corsham Court, Corsham, Wiltshire, England, is a garden structure dating from the mid-18th century.

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Battle Abbey

Battle Abbey is a partially ruined Benedictine abbey in Battle, East Sussex, England.

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Beaudesert, Cannock Chase

Beaudesert was an estate and stately home on the southern edge of Cannock Chase in Staffordshire.

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Belhus, Essex

Belhus is a golf course, country park, former stately home and manor in the parish of Aveley in Essex, England.

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Belvoir Castle

Belvoir Castle is a faux historic castle and stately home in Leicestershire, England, situated west of the town of Grantham and northeast of Melton Mowbray.

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Benham Park

Benham Park is a mansion (on the site of Benham Valence Manor) in the English ceremonial county of Berkshire and district of West Berkshire.

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Berrington Hall

Berrington Hall is a country house located about north of Leominster, Herefordshire, England.

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Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.

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Boarstall

Boarstall is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, about west of Aylesbury.

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Boston, Lincolnshire

Boston is a market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England.

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Bowood House

Bowood is a Grade I listed Georgian country house in Wiltshire, England, that has been owned for more than 250 years by the Fitzmaurice family.

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Braunschweig

Braunschweig or Brunswick (from Low German Brunswiek, local dialect: Bronswiek) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser.

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Brentford

Brentford is a suburban town in West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow.

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Brightling Park

Brightling Park (previously known as Rose Hill) is a country estate which lies in the parishes of Brightling and Dallington in the Rother district of East Sussex, England.

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Broadlands

Broadlands is a country house located in the civil parish of Romsey Extra, near the town of Romsey in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Burghley House

Burghley House is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire.

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Burton Constable Hall

Burton Constable Hall is a large Elizabethan country house in England, with 18th- and 19th-century interiors and a fine 18th-century cabinet of curiosities.

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Burton Park

Burton Park is a 19th-century country house in the civil parish of Duncton in West Sussex, and is situated 1/2 a mile to the east of the village of Duncton, within its own estate.

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Burton Pynsent House

Burton Pynsent House is a historic country-house in the parish of Curry Rivel, Somerset, England.

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Cambo, Northumberland

Cambo is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wallington Demesne, in Northumberland, England.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Capheaton Hall

Capheaton Hall, near Wallington, Northumberland, is an English country house, the seat of the Swinburne Baronets and a childhood home of the poet Algernon Swinburne.

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Cardiff Castle

Cardiff Castle (Castell Caerdydd) is a medieval castle and Victorian Gothic revival mansion located in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales.

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Castle Ashby House

Castle Ashby, often Castle Ashby House (to differentiate it from the parish) is a country house at Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, England.

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Caversham, Reading

Caversham is a village and suburb of Reading in Berkshire, England, located directly north of Reading town centre across the River Thames.

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Charlecote

Charlecote is a small village and civil parish south of Warwick, on the River Avon, in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, England.

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Charles Bridgeman

Charles Bridgeman (1690–1738) was an English garden designer who helped pioneer the naturalistic landscape style. Capability Brown and Charles Bridgeman are English Landscape Garden designers, English gardeners and English landscape architects.

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Charlton Park, Wiltshire

Charlton Park is a country house and estate in Wiltshire, England, northeast of the town of Malmesbury.

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Chilham Castle

Nestled in the heart of a 300-acre estate, Chilham Castle, once owned by Henry VIII, has hosted kings, queens and historic celebrations for over eight centuries.

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Chillingham Castle

Chillingham Castle is a medieval castle in the village of Chillingham in the northern part of Northumberland, England.

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Chillington Hall

Chillington Hall is a Georgian country house near Brewood, Staffordshire, England, four miles northwest of Wolverhampton.

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Christopher Hussey (historian)

Christopher Edward Clive Hussey CBE (21 October 1899 – 20 March 1970) was one of the chief authorities on British domestic architecture of the generation that also included Dorothy Stroud and Sir John Summerson.

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Clandon Park House

Clandon Park House is an early 18th-century grade I listed Palladian mansion in West Clandon, near Guildford in Surrey.

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Claremont (country house)

Claremont, also known historically as 'Clermont', is an 18th-century Palladian mansion less than a mile south of the centre of Esher in Surrey, England.

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Claude Lorrain

Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era.

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Clumber Park

Clumber Park is a country park in The Dukeries near Worksop in the civil parish of Clumber and Hardwick, Nottinghamshire, England.

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Compton Verney

Compton Verney is a parish and historic manor in the county of Warwickshire, England.

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Coombe Abbey

Coombe Abbey (alternatively styled as 'Combe Abbey') is a hotel which has been developed from a historic grade I listed building and former country house, itself converted out of a Cistercian abbey.

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Corsham Court

Corsham Court is an English country house in a park designed by Capability Brown.

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Country Life (books)

Country Life books are publications, mostly on English country houses and gardens, compiled from the articles and photographic archives of Country Life magazine, usually published in the UK by Aurum Press and in the USA by Rizzoli.

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Cowlinge

Cowlinge (/ˈkuː.lɪnʤ/), pronounced "Coolinje", is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England close to the Cambridgeshire and Essex borders.

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Croome Court

Croome Court is a mid-18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Upton-upon-Severn in south Worcestershire, England.

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Danson Park

Danson Park is a public park in the London Borough of Bexley, South East London, located between Welling and Bexleyheath.

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Darley Abbey

Darley Abbey is a former historic mill village, now a suburb of the city of Derby, in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England.

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Dean of Westminster

The Dean of Westminster is the head of the chapter at Westminster Abbey.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area on the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England.

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Ditchingham

Ditchingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Ditchingham Hall

Ditchingham Hall is an English country house, near the village of Ditchingham in south Norfolk, England, which is set in about of parkland landscaped by Capability Brown.

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Dodington Park

Dodington Park is a country house and estate in Dodington, South Gloucestershire, England.

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Dorothy Stroud

A memorial at Croome Park Dorothy Nancy Stroud MBE (11 January 1910 – 27 December 1997) was an English museum curator and biographer.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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English country house

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

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English landscape garden

The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (Jardin à l'anglaise, Giardino all'inglese, Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Jardim inglês, Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical French formal garden which had emerged in the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.

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Eton College

Eton College is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England.

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Euston Hall

Euston Hall is a country house, with park by William Kent and Capability Brown, located in Euston, a small village in Suffolk located just south of Thetford, England.

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Farnborough Hall

Farnborough Hall is a country house in Warwickshire, England near to the town of Banbury,.

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Fawley Court

Fawley Court is a country house, with large mixed-use grounds standing on the west bank of the River Thames at Fawley in the English county of Buckinghamshire.

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Fenstanton

Fenstanton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, south of St Ives in Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and historic county.

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French formal garden

The French formal garden, also called the garden in the French manner, is a style of "landscape" garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature.

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Gardener

A gardener is someone who practices gardening, either professionally or as a hobby.

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Gatton Park

Gatton Park is a country estate set in parkland landscaped by Capability Brown and gardens by Henry Ernest Milner and Edward White at Gatton, near Reigate in Surrey, England.

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George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry

George William Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry (26 April 1722 – 3 September 1809), styled Viscount Deerhurst from 1744 to 1751, was a British peer and Tory politician.

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George III

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Great Packington

Great Packington, historically known as Packington Magna, is a hamlet, civil parish and country park in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England.

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Grimsthorpe Castle

Grimsthorpe Castle is a country house in Lincolnshire, England north-west of Bourne on the A151.

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Ha-ha

A ha-ha (hâ-hâ or saut de loup), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond from the other side.

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Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames.

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Hannah More

Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, who wrote on moral and religious subjects.

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Harewood House

Harewood House is a country house in Harewood, West Yorkshire, England.

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Henry Holland (architect)

Henry Holland (20 July 1745 – 17 June 1806) was an architect to the English nobility.

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Hertford Street

Hertford Street is a street in central London's Mayfair district.

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Heveningham Hall

Heveningham Hall is a Grade I listed building in Heveningham, Suffolk, England.

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High sheriff

A high sheriff is a ceremonial officer for each shrieval county of England and Wales and Northern Ireland or the chief sheriff of a number of paid sheriffs in U.S. states who outranks and commands the others in their court-related functions.

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Highclere Castle

Highclere Castle is a Grade I listed country house built in 1679 and largely renovated in the 1840s, with a park designed by Capability Brown in the 18th century.

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Highcliffe Castle

Highcliffe Castle, situated on the cliffs at Highcliffe, Dorset, was built between 1831 and 1835 by Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay in a Romantic and Picturesque, Gothic Revival style near the site of High Cliff House, a Georgian Mansion designed for the 3rd Earl of Bute (a founder of Kew Gardens) with the gardens laid out by Capability Brown.

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Himley Hall

Himley Hall is an early 17th-century country house situated in Staffordshire, England.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Holkham Hall

Holkham Hall is an 18th-century country house near the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England, constructed in the Neo-Palladian style for the 1st Earl of Leicester (of the fifth creation of the title)The Earldom of Leicester has been, to date, created seven times.

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Holland Park

Holland Park is an area of Kensington, on the western edge of Central London, that lies within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and largely surrounds its namesake park, Holland Park.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.

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Hornby Castle, North Yorkshire

Hornby Castle is a grade I listed fortified manor house on the edge of Wensleydale between Bedale and Leyburn, in the county of North Yorkshire, England.

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Hult Ashridge

Hult Ashridge (also known as the Ashridge Programme or Ashridge) is the executive education programme of Hult International Business School, housed in Hult's Ashridge Estate campus.

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Humphry Repton

Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great designer of the classic phase of the English landscape garden, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown. Capability Brown and Humphry Repton are English Landscape Garden designers and English landscape architects.

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Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)

Huntingdon is a constituency west of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire and including its namesake town of Huntingdon.

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Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire (abbreviated Hunts) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England, which was historically a county in its own right.

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Ickworth House

Ickworth House is a country house at Ickworth, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England.

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Ingestre

Ingestre is a village and civil parish in the Stafford district, in the county of Staffordshire, England.

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Ingress Abbey

Ingress Abbey is a Neo-gothic Jacobean-style country house in Greenhithe, Kent, England, built in 1833 on the site of an earlier Palladian-style house.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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John Hall (priest)

John Robert Hall (born 13 March 1949) is an English retired priest of the Church of England.

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John Vanbrugh

Sir John Vanbrugh (24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. Capability Brown and John Vanbrugh are English landscape architects.

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Kelston

Kelston is a small village and civil parish in Somerset, north west of Bath, and east of Bristol, on the A431 road.

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Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC is an American print-on-demand publishing company located in Whitefish, Montana, that specializes in rare, out-of-print books.

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Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world".

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Kiddington Hall

Kiddington Hall is a large Grade II listed manor house located in Kiddington, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.

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Kimberley, Norfolk

Kimberley is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England, situated about north-west of Wymondham, around the crossroads of the B1108 and B1135.

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Kimbolton Castle

Kimbolton Castle is a country house in Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, England.

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Kings Weston House

Kings Weston House is a historic building in Kings Weston Lane, Kingsweston, Bristol, England.

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Kirkharle

Kirkharle (otherwise Kirk Harle) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kirkwhelpington, in the county of Northumberland in Northern England located about west of the town of Morpeth, just to the west of the crossroads of the A696 and B6342 roads.

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Kirkharle Hall

Kirkharle Hall was a country house at Kirkharle, Northumberland, England, the former seat of the Loraine family, now much reduced and in use as a farmhouse.

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Kirtlington

Kirtlington is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about west of Bicester.

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Knowsley Hall

Knowsley Hall is a stately home near Liverpool in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England.

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Kyre

Kyre is a small village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills district of the county of Worcestershire, England, and shares its parish council with neighbouring Stoke Bliss and Bockleton.

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Lacock Abbey

Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order.

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Land agent

Land agent may be used in at least three different contexts.

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Landed property

In real estate, a landed property or landed estate is a property that generates income for the owner (typically a member of the gentry) without the owner having to do the actual work of the estate.

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Landscape architect

A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture. Capability Brown and landscape architect are landscape architects.

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Landscape architecture

Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes.

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Langley Hall

Langley Hall is a red-brick building in the Palladian style, formerly a country house but now a private school, located near Loddon, Norfolk, England.

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Langley Park, Buckinghamshire

Langley Park is a historic house and estate in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Langley, Berkshire

Langley, also known as Langley Marish, is an area of Slough in Berkshire, England.

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Latimer, Buckinghamshire

Latimer is a village in Buckinghamshire, England, on the border with Hertfordshire.

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Launcelot Brown

Launcelot Brown (13 January 1748 – 28 February 1802) was an English politician.

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Leeds Priory

Leeds Priory, also known as Leeds Abbey, was a priory in Leeds, Kent, England, that was founded in 1119 and dissolved in 1539.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire, abbreviated Lincs, is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England.

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Lleweni Hall

Lleweni Hall (Welsh: Plas Lleweni; sometimes also referred to as Llewenny Palace) was a stately home in Denbighshire, northeast Wales, around north-east of Denbigh on the banks of the River Clwyd.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Longford Castle

Longford Castle is a Grade I listed country house on the banks of the River Avon south of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.

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Longleat

Longleat is a stately home about west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England.

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Loraine baronets

The Loraine Baronetcy, of Kirk Harle in the County of Northumberland, was a title in the Baronetage of England.

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Lowther Castle

Lowther Castle is a crenellated country house in the historic county of Westmorland, which now under the current unitary authority of Westmorland and Furness, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England.

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Luton Hoo

Luton Hoo is an English country house and estate near Luton in Bedfordshire and Harpenden in Hertfordshire.

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Madingley

Madingley is a small village near Cambridge, England.

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Maid

A maid, housemaid, or maidservant is a female domestic worker.

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Mamhead House

Mamhead House, Mamhead, Devon, is a country house dating from 1827.

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Marie-Luise Gothein

Marie-Luise Gothein (12 September 1863 – 24 December 1931) was a Prussian scholar, gardener and author.

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Melton Constable Hall

Melton Constable Hall is a large (Grade I listed) country house in the parish of Melton Constable, Norfolk, England designed in the Christopher Wren style and built between 1664 and 1670 for the Astley family who owned the estate from 1235 until 1948.

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Milton Abbas

Milton Abbas is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, lying around southwest of Blandford Forum.

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Milton Abbey School

Milton Abbey School is a private school for day and boarding pupils in the village of Milton Abbas, near Blandford Forum in Dorset, in South West England.

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Moccas Court

Moccas Court is an 18th-century country house which sits in sloping grounds overlooking the River Wye north of the village of Moccas, Herefordshire, England.

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Moor Park (house)

Moor Park is a Neo-Palladian mansion set within several hundred acres of parkland to the south-east of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England.

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Mount Clare, Roehampton

Mount Clare is a Grade I listed house built in 1772 in Minstead Gardens, Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Nathaniel Dance-Holland

Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1st Baronet (8 May 1735 – 15 October 1811) was an English painter and politician.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

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Navestock

Navestock is a civil parish in the Borough of Brentwood in south Essex, in the East of England region of the United Kingdom.

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New Wardour Castle

New Wardour Castle is a Grade I listed English country house at Wardour, near Tisbury in Wiltshire, built for the Arundell family.

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Newton Park

Newton Park is an 18th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of Newton St Loe, Somerset, England, situated west of Bath.

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North Stoneham Park

North Stoneham Park, also known as Stoneham Park, was a landscaped parkland and country house of the same name, north of Southampton at North Stoneham, Hampshire.

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Northumberland

Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England, bordering Scotland.

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Nuneham Courtenay

Nuneham Courtenay is a village and civil parish about SSE of Oxford.

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Obituary

An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Patshull Hall

Patshull Hall is a substantial Georgian mansion house situated near Pattingham in Staffordshire, England.

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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art is a scholarly centre in London devoted to supporting original research into the history of British Art.

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Paultons Park

Paultons Park is an amusement park located in the New Forest National Park, near the village of Ower, in Hampshire, England, with over 70 rides and attractions.

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Petworth House

Petworth House is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England.

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Philip Southcote

Capt. Capability Brown and Philip Southcote are English gardeners and English landscape architects.

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Pishiobury

Pishiobury, sometimes spelled Pishobury, was a manor and estate in medieval Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.

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Portrait painting

Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject.

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Prior Park Landscape Garden

Prior Park Landscape Garden surrounding the Prior Park estate south of Bath, Somerset, England, was designed in the 18th century by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown, and is now owned by the National Trust.

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Ptolemy Dean

Ptolemy Hugo Dean (born 1968) is a British architect, television presenter and the 19th Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey.

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Ragley Hall

Ragley Hall in the parish of Arrow in Warwickshire is a stately home, located south of Alcester and eight miles (13 km) west of Stratford-upon-Avon.

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Ravenscourt Park

Ravenscourt Park or RCP is an public park and garden located in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, England.

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Richard Owen Cambridge

Richard Owen Cambridge (14 February 1717 – 17 September 1802) was an English poet.

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Richard Payne Knight

Richard Payne Knight (11 February 1751 – 23 April 1824) of Downton Castle in Herefordshire, and of 5 Soho Square,History of Parliament biography London, England, was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.

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Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham

Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (24 October 1675 – 14 September 1749) was a British soldier and Whig politician.

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Roche Abbey

Roche Abbey is a now-ruined abbey in the civil parish of Maltby, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Russell Page

Montague Russell Page OBE (1 November 1906 – 4 January 1985) was a British gardener, garden designer and landscape architect. Capability Brown and Russell Page are English gardeners and English landscape architects.

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Salvator Rosa

Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th century.

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Sanderson Miller

Sanderson Miller (1716 – 23 April 1780) was an English pioneer of Gothic revival architecture and landscape designer. Capability Brown and Sanderson Miller are 1716 births.

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Sandleford

Sandleford is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Greenham, in the West Berkshire district, in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Savernake Forest

Savernake Forest stands on a Cretaceous chalk plateau between Marlborough and Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England.

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Scampston Hall

Scampston Hall is a Grade II* listed country house in North Yorkshire, England, with a serpentine park designed by Charles Bridgeman and Capability Brown.

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Schloss Richmond

Richmond Castle ('Schloss Richmond') is a castle built from 1768 to 1769 in Braunschweig, Germany for Princess (later Duchess) Augusta, wife of Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand.

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Sheffield Park and Garden

Sheffield Park and Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath, in East Sussex, England.

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Sherborne Castle

Sherborne Castle (sometimes called Sherborne New Castle) is a 16th-century Tudor mansion southeast of Sherborne in Dorset, England, within the parish of Castleton.

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Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire

This is an incomplete list of sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in England from 1154 until the abolition of the office in 1965. Capability Brown and sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire are high Sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.

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Shrubbery

A shrubbery, shrub border or shrub garden is a part of a garden where shrubs, mostly flowering species, are thickly planted.

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Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet

Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet (baptised 14 April 1747 – 14 September 1829), author of the Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared with the Sublime and The Beautiful (1794), was a Herefordshire landowner who was at the heart of the 'Picturesque debate' of the 1790s. Capability Brown and Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet are English landscape architects.

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Sledmere House

Sledmere House is a Grade I listed Georgian country house, containing Chippendale, Sheraton and French furnishings and many fine pictures, set within a park designed by Capability Brown.

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South Stoneham House

South Stoneham House is a Grade II* listed former manor house in Swaythling, Southampton; the former seat of the Barons Swaythling before the family moved to the nearby Townhill Park House.

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Southill Park

Southill Park contains the site of late medieval Gastlings or Gastlyns Manor House and is the name given to a country house in Southill, Bedfordshire, its adjoining privately owned gardens and separate public parkland; it includes a lake and woodland.

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References

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