A beautiful historic parkland designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown with Edwardian gardens in Reigate, Surrey
The park at Gatton is most famous for the work that was carried out
between 1762 and 1766 by the famous English landscape designer Lancelot
‘Capability’ Brown. Brown was enlisted to work on the park by Sir
James Colebrooke who purchased Gatton in 1751. While there had been a
park at Gatton from the mid 15th century on, it was brown’s work that
has proved to be the most enduring. Brown swept away the formal
landscape that had been there and replaced it with informal
naturalistic plantings which accentuated the rolling landscape of the
park. In the area around the mansion a number of shrub borders and
walks were planted and the southern terrace was levelled to create an
area from which the parkland could be viewed. The main lake was greatly
expanded and the tributary lakes reshaped to include one of his
trademark serpentine canals.
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