'Capability' Brown's best English gardens
The year 2016 marks the tercentenary of English landscape designer Capability Brown's birth - and, with celebrations galore planned, we thought we'd use the occasion as an excuse to show you some of his most beautiful creations.
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Lancelot Brown's nickname 'Capability' came from his fondness for speaking about a country estate having a great 'capability' for improvement. Although his popularity fell into decline after his death, it began to recover in the last century - and by 1980 he was being recognised as a 'genius' of English garden architecture.
He is often described as the 'Shakespeare of English garden design' - and, although he was born 300 years ago, his incredible talent is still wonderfully demonstrated in gardens all over the country.
During his life, Brown took gardens to a whole new dimension, introducing a more 'natural' style to some of the most formal public and private green spaces in the land - and he left behind the legacy of the quintessential garden for which England is famous. Many examples of his work are open to the public, while others are well maintained as golf courses.
In the run-up to a year of celebrations marking 300 years since Brown's birth, we got together with VisitEngland to look at some of his greatest works.
