Woburn Abbey Garden Designer

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Woburn abbey garden designer. Woburn abbey garden show. She studied garden design at merrist wood college surrey and can be contacted via her website www toppdesigns co uk. The landscape gardens at woburn abbey later developed by the renowned landscape garden designer humphry repton in 1805 contain some unusual oriental features.

Show opening times 22 23 june from 10am 5pm last entry 4pm. Humphry repton 21 april 1752 24 march 1818 was the last great english landscape designer of the eighteenth century often regarded as the successor to capability brown. Woburn abbey is a historic house on the border of buckinghamshire and bedfordshire close to milton keynes bedford and luton.

Woburn was the most fully realised of repton s projects. Repton proposed a lake a serpentine river an american garden extensive planting a bridge and a thornery. Visitors can join tours to learn about the creation of the humphry repton landscape.

Shown here is the chinese dairy designed by henry holland and built in 1787. Humphrey repton is buried in the churchyard at aylsham norfolk. This is an exciting time for us as we redevelop the gardens as envisaged by humphry repton sir jeffry wyattville percy cane and henry holland.

Join our repton study day by emailing studydays woburn co uk. A large red book was presented to the 6th duke of bedford in 1802. He was employed by the 6th duke in the early 19th century to design a new layout for the gardens and grounds around woburn abbey.

Woburn abbey landscape gardens bedfordshire england. Repton is by far the most important landscape and garden theorist of the nineteenth century and it is a pity that more of his work can t be seen. Woburn abbey has a hornbeam maze herbaceous borders ponds a woodland garden and a chinese dairy overlooking a.