Kingston Maurward

View from a layby on A35 where I often stop but I have never noticed this as in the summer trees obscure the view.

Kingston Maurward House was built in 1720 for George Pitt in the classic Palladian style that so characterised this period.

The contemporary parkland and pleasure gardens were laid out in the style popularised by Capability Brown. Simplicity was the hallmark of the gardens which consisted of rolling turf, carefully placed groups of trees, a lake and a lakeside temple.

The Gardens today are a survival from several periods. The lovely 35 acre formal gardens were created between 1915 and 1922 within the existing framework of the 18th Century Parkland setting.

These days its an agricultural college