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What's the Story of the Forest of Witchwood?
Woodstock manor used to stand just the other side of the bridge from where we are at the moment. It's where princess elizabeth was imprisoned by her sister mary during a tudor time. So it has its own history as well. But what about the landscape then? When did capability brown come into the picture? He, he didn't come into tory immediately. The duke was actually 55 and employed henry wise to landscape the grounds. At that time, the fashion was for symmetry. And so hat this partere, i think, was about 12 acres,. little clipped hedges and lots of colourful and gravel, et cetera.
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