Wrest Park, Gravenhurst and Silsoe, Central Bedfordshire

In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Earl and Countess of Kent altered the medieval and 16th-century house at Wrest and laid out a formal landscape around it, including a canal called the Long Water. Between circa 1758 and 1760, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was engaged to work on the periphery of the Great Garden. In 1833 the house was demolished and replaced with a new one in a Louis XV style.

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