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Burghley House Garden

Garden Address: Burghley House Garden, Stamford, PE9 3JY Lincolnshire, England

Directions for Visiting: Burghley House gardens are 1 mile south east of Stamford.

Opening Dates and Times: Park and Sculpture Garden open daily throughout the year Daily Open 11am to 4.30pm

Public Admission: Park is free and £3 for sculpture garden (from June to September)

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See Website: Burghley House Garden

Text Reference(s):

Garden Description: A great Elizabethan house (1587) with a serpentine park. The park was designed, after 1754, by Lancelot Brown. Dorothy Stround describes the commission as being 'one of the most important of his career and which lasted for over a quarter of a century'. Horace Walpole exclaimed 'A noble pile! Brown is ornamenting the Park and has built a gothic greenhouse and stables which are not bad, except that they do not accord with the house, which is not Gothic'. Brown widened the river, made a serpentine lake, sited a summerhouse by the lake, designed a stone bridge and planted trees in the park. A five acre space at the head of Brown's lake has been reclaimed from scrubland and planted with specimen treees. It is used as a sculpture garden, displaying contemporary works.

Garden History Keydate(s): 1754

Quality Rating(s):

** Design Interest

** Scenic Interest

Design Style(s):

Serpentine Style

Designer(s): Lancelot Brown

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