Stately--and desolate: Tim Richardson welcomes a lucid, scholarly guide to one of the most complex sites in English garden history.(The Gardens and Parks at Hampton Court Palace)(Book review)

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The Gardens and Parks at Hampton Court Palace TODD LONGSTAFFE-GOWAN PHOTOGRAPHS BY VIVIAN RUSSELL Frances Lincoln, 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0711223688

It is perhaps the most daunting single-site subject available in garden history, more complex than Versailles, Stowe, the Boboli Gardens or the Alhambra/ Generalife. Hampton Court's gardens as they exist today are the result of the close attentions over several centuries of successive monarchs from Henry gin, each of whom made a point of remaking different parts of the estate to their own prescription in the height of ...

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