Cattle

Wimpole Hall

The house, begun in 1640, and its 3,000 acres (12 km²) of parkland and farmland are owned by the National Trust and are regularly open to the public. Several architects and landscape designers contributed to Wimpole Hall's completion (most famously James Gibbs).


A child's grave



Random statue

A Stately Home is a 'smaller' castle designed specifically for one family. Here is a chronology of owners...

• 1640 Sir Thomas Chicheley
• 1686 Sir John Cutler
• 1693 Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor
• 1710 John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 4th Earl of Clare
• 1711 Henrietta Holles
• 1713 Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
• 1740 Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
• 1764 Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke
• 1790 Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke
• 1834 Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke
• 1873 Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke
• 1894 Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden
• 1919 Francis Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden
• 1938 Captain and Mrs George Bambridge
• 1976 The National Trust

Golf Course or Transitional Community?

Take a stroll through any of Cambridge's villages and you are sure to find a golf course. This particular 9 hole 3 par can be found in Bourn, about eight miles west of Cambridge.



After Degree Project 2010 I can't help but imagine Tschumi'esque 'Cross Programming' schemes to diversify the banality of sprawling fields of grass.



Happy Gilmore had it right years ago saying 'Are you too good for your home?' This photo has Landscape Urbanism innuendo written all over it.