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Historic Gardens of Worcestershire Timothy Mowl

Historic Gardens of Worcestershire By Timothy Mowl

Historic Gardens of Worcestershire by Timothy Mowl


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Worcestershire is rich in great gardens, such as: Madresfield Court, the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" and the restored early eighteenth-century Hanbury Hall, both near Malvern in the south of the county; Hagley Hall of the mid-eighteenth century and William Shenstone's Arcadian masterpiece The Leasowes; and more.

Historic Gardens of Worcestershire Summary

Historic Gardens of Worcestershire by Timothy Mowl

Worcestershire is particularly rich in great gardens from the last 250 years, such as: Madresfield Court, the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" and the restored early eighteenth-century Hanbury Hall, both near Malvern in the south of the county; Hagley Hall of the mid-eighteenth century and William Shenstone's Arcadian masterpiece The Leasowes, both near Halesowen in the north; Croome Park by Capability Brown and the Victorian extravaganza of Witley Hall with its magnificent restored fountains.

About Timothy Mowl

Dr Timothy Mowl is Reader in Architecture & Garden History, University of Bristol , and the author of companion volumes on Gloucestershire, Dorset , Wiltshire and Cornwall. On Historic Gardens of Gloucestershire reviewers lavished unstinted praise: 'Quite the best county garden history there is' -- Country Life. 'Tim Mowl is rapidly becoming one of the best-known, and most stimulating writers on garden history. ... this a book to be relished, full of detail and anecdote' -- Landscape History.

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GOR003599140
9780752436548
0752436546
Historic Gardens of Worcestershire by Timothy Mowl
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The History Press Ltd
2006-04-01
208
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