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Open Country: Belvoir Castle and its 'Capability' Brown Landscape

Belvoir Castle and its 'Capability' Brown Landscape

01/12/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Belvoir Castle and its 'Capability' Brown Landscape

Helen Mark explores the completed 'Capability' Brown gardens at Belvoir Castle.

Helen Mark discovers how the lost 'Capability' Brown plans for Belvoir Castle have finally come to fruition, over 200 years after they were first drawn up.

Helen Mark is in Leicestershire, to discover how the 'Capability' Brown plans for Belvoir castle have finally come to fruition. 
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, regarded as one of the greatest landscape architects, laid out his vision for how the landscape around this ancestral home should look, back in the 18th century. Some work was undertaken, but then a fire destroyed Belvoir castle. It was assumed all the Brown maps were lost too and plans for restoring the landscape were forgotten. However, the current Duchess of Rutland, Emma Manners and her team found the lost 'Capability' Brown plans. They have just finished restoring the landscape around Belvoir Castle, now a completed 'Capability' Brown garden, just in time to mark the 300th anniversary of his birth. 
The producer is Perminder Khatkar.

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