Benton Seeley's 1744 Guidebook opens with a description of the Octagon Lake and then highlights this garden structure as "An Artificial Piece of Ruin cover'd with Ever-greens, under which lie …
Named after James Brown (not 'Capability' and not the soul singer) who was a head gardener and instrumental in beginning work in this area. In 1827 he received a silver …
Wonderful site that most of our visitors usually miss. There’s a tunnel behind the cascade that leads into the centre of the lake. Resident bats reside here. Look in and …
The cascade that can be seen today is just the base of a much more elaborate structure that can be identified in the painting by William Hannan. It appears that …