Petworth Park

After a Solstice day yesterday when it hardly got light at all, a lovely sunny day for a walk round Petworth Park

In the Park with Petworth House in the distance. The 700 acre deer park was landscaped by Lancelot Capability Brown in the 1750’s, and has some wonderful walks, but maybe the best is when the vista opens up and the house appears. The pleasure gardens are at the other side of the house from here, with a rotunda and Doric temple I’ve blipped before. The National Trust run the place now and claim that the herd of fallow deer is the oldest in England. Not an appealing house, it has no great architecture, but Turner loved it and painted it several times. Constable was also a guest here and painted it too. An exhibition of his work in and around Petworth opens at Petworth House in the new year. Must remember to book, we missed the Turner exhibition which got booked up very quickly.

Happy Solstice ~ the light gets longer from now on:-)