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Stowe Landscape Gardens & Monuments, Buckinghamshire, England===The history of the gardens==In the 1690s, Stowe had a modest early-baroque parterre garden, owing more to Italy than to France, but it has not survived, and, within a relatively short time, Stowe became widely renowned for its magnificent gardens created by Lord Cobham. The Landscape Garden was created in three main phases, showing...
This is the Umbrella Project Page for Worcestershire, England. Image right - Armorial banner of Worcestershire County Council ===== Image by Escudo_de_Villanueva_de_Perales.svg Coat_of_Arms_of_Henry_of_Wales.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wiki Commons ===Related Projects>* People Connected to Worcestershire >* Worcestershire Famous People >* Historical Worcestershire >* Historic Buildings of Worcestersh...
West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire, England= West Wycombe Park is a country house near the village of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, built between 1740 and 1800. It was conceived as a pleasure palace for the 18th-century libertine and dilettante Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Baronet. The house is a long rectangle with four façades that are columned and pedimented, three theatrically so. ...