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229: Is Blenheim Brown’s biggest lake?

On April 6, 2016

Mr G writes from Wolverhampton has asked me whether Chillington has the second biggest (after Blenheim) of the lakes constructed by Mr ‘Capability’ Brown, himself a man of unquestioned parts..

141: Quack? Squawk? Growl?

By The Brown Advisor

On November 19, 2015

In Animals, Buildings, Menageries, Nature and Order

Mrs F has contacted me from Kenilworth to ask whether Capability Brown designed menageries.

Hullo all, they call me Oofy, Oofy Price actually. Well the Tatler’s Waste-bin was a wash-out. Just not licking the lolly. So me and the chaps have taken over and we’re starting a paper. ‘The Repton Gazette’. Same rules as for the last lot (questions numbered and logged on receipt, responses whenever we get round to it, everyone anonymous unless requested otherwise). Thought it would be jolly to start numbering with 1818 (year Repton died) and rock up to the present, 200 FAQs later. Ta-ta. Oofy

By John Phibbs

The Repton Gazette and Brown Advisor

300 Frequently Asked Questions about Capability Brown, and a further 200 about Humphry Repton

Tag: Stoke Place

229: Is Blenheim Brown’s biggest lake?

141: Quack? Squawk? Growl?

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