Wimpole Hall landscape

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Wimpole Hall landscape is the extensively redesigned 18th-century parkland and gardens surrounding Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, England, celebrated as a major example of Lancelot "Capability" Brown’s naturalistic English landscape style.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf English landscape park
historic designed landscape
landscape garden
associatedWith Lancelot "Capability" Brown
National Trust
Wimpole Hall
characteristicFeature carefully framed views of the house
integration of agriculture and designed scenery
naturalistic water bodies
sweeping lawns
country United Kingdom
currentUse recreational landscape
visitor attraction
designedFor Wimpole Hall owners
designer Lancelot "Capability" Brown
function aesthetic pleasure
elite country estate setting
hasPart approach drives
arable fields
artificial lakes
avenues of trees
farm buildings in parkland setting
formal gardens
ha-ha
kitchen garden
ornamental planting
ornamental water features
parkland
parkland clumps of trees
pasture land
pleasure grounds
vista lines
walled garden
woodland belts
heritageDesignation Grade I registered park and garden
heritageRegister Register of Historic Parks and Gardens
surface form: Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England
locatedIn Cambridgeshire, England
surface form: Cambridgeshire

England
location Wimpole Hall
maintainedAs historic landscape
managedBy National Trust
openToPublic yes
partOf Wimpole Hall
surface form: Wimpole Estate
period 18th century
significance important example of English landscape movement
major example of Capability Brown’s work
style English landscape style
naturalistic landscape style

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Lancelot "Capability" Brown notableWork Wimpole Hall landscape