A spectacular country estate designed by Capability Brown, Britain's 'greatest gardener', has come on the market for £5.75million. But if the new owner wants a stately home to match the grandeur of ...

From beer to bulbs to sculptors’ busts, one of Northumberland’s greatest historical figures has been comprehensively celebrated in the 300th anniversary year of his birth. Surprisingly, Lancelot ...

Landscape designer Capability Brown worked on 250 sites across England and Wales and left a gardening legacy that continues to shape our response to nature and the countryside. Show more Capability ...

IT’S said that Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was given his distinctive nickname because he would assure landowners that their ground had the 'capability' to be transformed by his ideas. It must be said, ...

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 ...

Major restorations under way at British castles and palaces to mark 300 years since birth of celebrated landscape gardener Some of Britain’s finest gardens designed by Lancelot Brown, the ...

February marks the start of year-long celebrations of the life and work of England's greatest gardener, Lancelot "Capability" Brown. Born in 1716, Brown was best known for designing gardens and ...

Shut your eyes and think of the English landscape. What do you see? If the answer is rolling parkland studded with ancient oaks and garlanded with a ribbon of water, then your vision is almost ...

Historic documents have uncovered landscape gardener Capability Brown's unrealised design for the landscape around Cambridge's historic colleges. In the 1770s the chancellor of Cambridge University ...

Place-making: The art of Capability Brown (Historic England, £60) has an unusual back story. John Phibbs has spent years studying the life and work of Britain’s trailblazing landscape gardener, and ...

A garden design by Capability Brown, one of England's greatest gardening architects, is to be brought to life after remaining hidden for 250 years. Capability Brown's first garden: Brown was born and ...

On 29th May 2018 a memorial to the famous landscape gardener and architect Lancelot Capability Brown was unveiled at Westminster Abbey. The lead cistern fountain is in the centre of the main cloister.