Field meeting to Bedfordshire: Wrest Park and Woburn Bioblitz 18th and 19th September 2014

摘要

Wrest Park is an English Heritage property near Silsoe, Bedfordshire. It comprises a country house, and Wrest Park Gardens, both Grade I listed. Wrest Park has an early eighteenth-century garden, spread over 92 acres, which was probably originally laid out by George London and Henry Wise for Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, then modified by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in a more informal landscape style. The park is divided by a wide gravel central walk, continued as a long canal, that leads to a Baroque style pavilion (the Long Water). The boundary canals were altered to take a more natural shape by Capability Brown, who worked there between 1758 and 1760, and who also ringed the central formal area with a canal and woodland. From 2007 extensive restoration work on the house and garden has been carried out.