Visit to Capability Brown's Picturesque Landscape Garden At Wimpole, CambriDgeshiRE

Like Burghley Park and Stowe, the Wimpole estate progressed from a formal geometrical [French inspired] design into a landscaped park. The previous design is supposedly by London and Wise. Capability Brown altered the estate into a serpentine park with ribbons of trees and three lakes. Moreover, Repton made some proposals which were not realised. However, later the National Trust re-instated the parterres [formal gardens adjacent to the house]. (The National Trust, 1980) (Gardenvisit.com).

View from the House: Parterre (Formal gardens) in the foreground, agriculturally active landscape garden in the mid-ground, ruinous church folly in the background (centre)

Walled flower garden

18th-century walled garden by by William Eames and Sir John Soane’s glasshouse.

4km central axis

Ornamented ha-ha

The productive landscape beyond the ha-ha

View across landscape towards the folly & serpentine lake

An artificial landscape, co-inhabited by people, livestock, and nature. View besides serpentine lake.