King Alfred's Tower, the monumental pointer to the famous Stourhead Garden, lies just three kilometres north-west of it. Were it not for its ramrod posture, this red-brick folly would be England's ...

The world-famous landscape at Stourhead will be covered in a blaze of twinkling illuminations once more as the annual light trail comes to the gardens from Friday, November 25, 2022, until Sunday, ...

The Wiltshire garden has an 18th century Arcadian design with temples to Apollo and Flora, a pantheon, cascade, grotto and other romantic classical "ruins", which were the vision of Henry Hoar in 1741 ...

A Wiltshire estate garden described as "a living work of art" is in full-swing this autumn. The National Trust's Stourhead Estate garden, first opened in the 1740s, was designed by "Henry the ...

The National Trust’s Palladian house and gardens are preparing to wow visitors for another year with the return of the glittering light trail between Friday, November 25, 2022, and Sunday, January 1, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The eighteenth-century landscape garden at Stourhead has attracted considerable attention from commentators offering theories of Henry Hoare ...

Leaving Cornwall is never easy. It is such a loved place by everyone who visits that to say goodbye to the beautiful unspoiled countryside and magnificent coastal views is always a major tug on the ...

Many English gardens, like Hydecote, the subject of another winter talk not long ago, have a formal, architectural structure, he said. Hedges divide the space into garden "rooms" and anyone walking ...

An exhibition for the month of August sheds new light on the classical references at Stourhead, and visitors to the estate are encouraged to take their own Grand Tour of these remarkable gardens.

The idea of walking around an art gallery staring at works by the great artists is not everyone’s idea of fun, but an exhibition at Stourhead, near Mere, promises something a little different. More ...

It was bumper to bumper down the Wiltshire lanes to Stourhead. Not surprisingly, as the autumn colour climax was coinciding with a spell of clear blue sky. In one inlet of the lake, the fallen orange ...