UK - Bedfordshire - Silsoe - Wrest Park - Garden - Leg O'Mutton Lake
August 2013.
Day trip to Wrest Park in the village of Silsoe near Luton.
Wrest Park is a 19th century pseudo-French mansion built in 1834-39, to designs by its owner the Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, an amateur architect, the first president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Wrest Park has an early eighteenth-century garden which was probably originally laid out for Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent and then modified by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in a more informal landscape style.
It is now in the care of English Heritage.
UK - Bedfordshire - Silsoe - Wrest Park - Garden - Leg O'Mutton Lake
August 2013.
Day trip to Wrest Park in the village of Silsoe near Luton.
Wrest Park is a 19th century pseudo-French mansion built in 1834-39, to designs by its owner the Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, an amateur architect, the first president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Wrest Park has an early eighteenth-century garden which was probably originally laid out for Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent and then modified by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in a more informal landscape style.
It is now in the care of English Heritage.