Views
of Baroque Gardens
Gardens of eighteenth-century England
On
this page you will find contemporary views of many English houses
and gardens built during the eighteenth century. Most of them
tended to the formal park style, but many have dense shrubberies
close to the house, and a few seem to have preferred the dishevelled
and overgrown look. Some of the wealthier house owners managed
to have some of the new exotic trees growing, many have a water
feature (river, rivulets, streams lakes, or at least a hopeful
puddle or two), and most have sheep or cattle grazing the extensive
lawn areas.
Child’s
Hill House, in the western part of Hampstead parish outside
of London.
House
in Whitton on the edge of Hounslow-heath
Hampton
House in Hampton village, home to the famed actor David
Garrick from 1754.
Bentley
Priory, on the north-east extremity of Harrow Weald and
in the close vicinity of Stanmore.
Wyer
Hall, Edmonton, almost one mile north west from Fore Street.
Holland
House, Kensington, London.
Villa
of John Rolls, Esq., New Cross, on the Kent Road to London.
The
villa of John Elsee, Esq, Chigwell Road outside London.
Knights
Hill near Dulwich
Seven
Droog Castle, Shooter's Hill. Shooter's Hill adjoined Woolwich
Common.
The
seat of Abraham Goldsmith, Esq., Morden, Surrey.
The
Oaks, Bansted Downs, villa of the Earl of Derby.
Ember
Court near Thames Ditton.
Wimbledon
Lodge owned by Gerard de Visme.
Rye
House, Hertfordshire.
Wormley
Bury
Theobalds
Claybury,
near Woodford Bridge.
Bush
Hill Park north of London.
South
Lodge, Enfield Chase
The
Temple in Chiswick Gardens, London
The
Gardens outside the Levee Room in Regent Murray's House
Coming
shortly, extensive plans of eighteenth-century London parks
and gardens.
