View over the lake called 'Big Waters', Fawsley Park, Northamptonshire
View from near the south door of St Mary the Virgin Church. There are two other lakes and together they surround on three sides the hilltop the church stands on. Together they make two of the sources of the River Nene.
In the 1760s and 70s Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, the landscape gardener transformed the park by damming one of the lakes and creating sweeping vistas, planting trees and laying lawns. Many of the trees can still be seen today. Diarist Horace Walpole noted that Brown was at Fawsley in 1763. His account books show that he was paid £700 (almost the equivalent of £1.2 million in 2015) in 1765-66. There was a second contract in 1767-68 for £550 (or the equivalent of £938,400 in 2015).
From the website firle.com/a-short-history-of-fawsley-northamptonshire/
I walked about seven miles that day, and apart from an elderly dog walker who stopped to say hello and have a chat near the church, I never saw another person.
View over the lake called 'Big Waters', Fawsley Park, Northamptonshire
View from near the south door of St Mary the Virgin Church. There are two other lakes and together they surround on three sides the hilltop the church stands on. Together they make two of the sources of the River Nene.
In the 1760s and 70s Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, the landscape gardener transformed the park by damming one of the lakes and creating sweeping vistas, planting trees and laying lawns. Many of the trees can still be seen today. Diarist Horace Walpole noted that Brown was at Fawsley in 1763. His account books show that he was paid £700 (almost the equivalent of £1.2 million in 2015) in 1765-66. There was a second contract in 1767-68 for £550 (or the equivalent of £938,400 in 2015).
From the website firle.com/a-short-history-of-fawsley-northamptonshire/
I walked about seven miles that day, and apart from an elderly dog walker who stopped to say hello and have a chat near the church, I never saw another person.