Medieval to post-medieval park, 'Thorndon Park', Thorndon (EHER 8551)

An 18th-19th century park and woodland, and a late 18th century walled garden. Capability Brown (1766 and 1772) largely obliterated earlier formal elements. It forms the landscape park and pleasure grounds to Thorndon Hall (EHER 27430), covering an area of 243 hectares. The park was enclosed in around 1412 and gardens remodelled in about 1576. The first landscaping of the park was documented in 1736 but the scheme was not completed. Between 1766-1772 Lancelot Brown was commissioned to update the park and lay out the pleasure grounds. Minor alterations by Richard Woods took place during the 1790s. In 1921 part of the park became a golf course. The rest was opened as a country park in 1971.

18th-19th century park and woodland; late 18th century walled garden. Capability Brown (1766 and 1772) largely obliterated earlier formal elements. A 1733 plan survives for the latter which included transitional serpentine lines. <1> - <5> See aerial photographs <6> <7> <8> and photograph <9>. See EHER 5423, EHER 5424 for mounds, probably associated with landscape gardening. Area = 380 Information from NRHE data transfer. 18th century landscape park at Thorndon Hall. The park includes work carried out by Capability Brown between 1766-1772 and was responsible for the lake and the boundary belts. His work is thought to have destroyed any earlier landscaping including an elaborate formal garden scheme, for which a plan of 1733 survives. Since 1919 part of the park has been in use as a golf course. Part has been in use as a country park since 1939. <1> Landscape park and pleasure grounds to Thorndon Hall, covering an area of 243 hectares. The park was enclosed circa 1412 and gardens remodelled in about 1576. The first landscaping of the park was documented in 1736 but the scheme was not completed. Between 1766-72 Lancelot Brown was commissioned to update the park and lay out the pleasure grounds. Minor alterations by Richard Woods took place during the 1790s. In 1921 part of the park became a golf course. The rest was opened as a country park in 1971. <10> See also <11>.