* King Alfred's Tower, Stourhead, Wiltshire, England

The source of the river is at Stourhead, in Wiltshire, where it forms a series of artificial lakes which are part of the Stourhead estate owned by the National Trust.

Stourhead () is a 1, 072-hectare ( 2, 650-acre ) estate at the source of the River Stour near Mere, Wiltshire, England.

He died at Stourhead, Wiltshire, in 1838.

Villa Borghese: the 19th century " Temple of Aesculapius " built purely as a landscape feature, influenced by the lake at Stourhead, Wiltshire, England.

The manor was bought in the 1780s by the Hoares of Stourhead in Wiltshire.

The latter's site reports and descriptions were published by Hoare in a book entitled Ancient Historie of Wiltshire in 1810, a copy of which is kept at Stourhead.

* Stourhead, Wiltshire, 1721 – 24, as a seat for the London-based banker Henry Hoare.

* Stourhead, Wiltshire, the portico part of Campbell's design was only added in 1840 ( 1721 – 24 ) interiors destroyed by fire ( 1902 )

* Stourhead, Wiltshire: 1744 – 65.

Places of interest: Avebury ( stone circle ), Kennet Long-Barrow, Savernake Forest, Crofton Pumping Station, Silbury Hill, Wilton Windmill, Stonehenge, Stourhead, Longleat, Alton Barnes ( crop circles ), Stonehenge ( stone circle ), Marlborough, Kennet and Avon Canal, Bruce Tunnel.

Due to his book Vitruvius Britannicus, Colen Campbell was chosen as the architect for banker Henry Hoare I's Stourhead house ( illustration below ), a masterpiece that became the inspiration for dozens of similar houses across England.

Although the main design for the estate at Stourhead was created by Colen Campbell, there were various other architects involved in its evolution through the years.

The lake at Stourhead is artificially created.

Thanks to the revival of interest in Palladio and Inigo Jones, soon Neo-Palladian villas dotted the valley of the River Thames and English countryside: such as Stourhead by Colen Campbell-1720, Holkham Hall-1730 ; Woburn Abbey by Henry Flitcroft and Henry Holland-1744 ; and Chiswick House by William Kent-1788.

His sole heir and son, Captain " Harry " Henry Colt Arthur Hoare, of the Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry, had died of wounds received at the Battle of Mughar Ridge on 13 November 1917 in World War I. Captain " Harry " Hoare is commemorated by a plaque on the Memorial Hall at Stourhead.

* Dodd, Dudley, Stourhead, published by The National Trust, 1981

* Woodbridge, Kenneth, 1982, The Stourhead Landscape, reprinted by the National Trust 2001

Palladian revival: Stourhead | Stourhead House, South facade, was designed by Colen Campbell and completed in 1720.

Palladian revival: Stourhead House, South facade, designed by Colen Campbell and completed in 1720.

Later styles are represented by Longford Castle, near Salisbury, where the picture galleries are of great interest ; by Heytesbury House ; by Wilton House at Wilton, Kingston House at Bradford-upon-Avon, Bowood House near Calne, Longleat near Warminster, Corsham Court at Corsham, Littlecote near Ramsbury, Chariton House near Malmesbury, Compton Chamberlayne in the Nadder valley, Grittleton House and the modern Castle Combe, both near Chippenham and Stourhead, on the borders of Dorset and Somerset.

The central Wörlitzer Park, adjacent to the small town of Wörlitz, was laid out between 1769 and 1773 by the Duke Leopold III, based on the models of Claremont, Stourhead and Stowe Landscape Garden.

The last Hoare family member to own the property, Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, gave the Stourhead house and gardens to the National Trust in 1946, one year before his death.

Richard Colt Hoare, the grandson of Henry Hoare II, inherited Stourhead in 1783.

In 1785 he inherited the large Stourhead estate from his grandfather, Henry Hoare II, which enabled him to pursue his interests including the archaeological studies for which he had already shown an inclination.

A bankruptcy and sale of remaining stock in the St. Martin's Lane premises in 1804 did not conclude the firm's latest phase, as the younger Chippendale supplied furniture to Sir Richard Colt Hoare at Stourhead until 1820 ( Edwards and Jourdain 1955: 88 ).

Beginning his work around 1798 the initial investigations were self-funded, but increasingly they attracted the interest of a succession of wealthy patrons culminating in Sir Richard Colt Hoare ( 1758-1838 ) of Stourhead.

Hoare was an extremely wealthy man, having inherited the Stourhead estate from his grandfather in 1785.

Brown's patrons saw the idealized landscapes he was creating for them in terms of the Italian landscape painters they admired and collected, as Kenneth Woodbridge first observed in the landscape at Stourhead, a " Brownian " landscape with an un-Brownian circuit walk in which Brown himself was not involved.

It ’ s assumed that his contribution to Stourhead was in this capacity.

* Stourhead House was featured on the cover of English indie rock band Milburn's single What Will You Do ( When The Money Goes )?

The family seat, until 1717, was Stourhead.

According to historian Ken Duxbury, such structures added a picturesque charm to the landscape, highlighting points of visual interest along the trail of the paths and serving a role not dissimilar to the grottos, classical temples, follies, hermitages and pagodas along the circuit walks of the classic ‘ English Landscape School ’ gardens such as Stourhead.

Soon after other English gardens such as Stourhead, Stowe, West Wycombe, Holkham, and Rousham were to follow suit, creating a type of garden which eventually would become known internationally as the English Landscape Garden.

Follies () were an important feature of the English garden and French landscape garden in the 18th century, such as Stowe and Stourhead in England and Ermenonville and the gardens of Versailles in France.

There are grottoes in the famous landscape gardens of Painshill Park, Stowe, Clandon Park and Stourhead.

The new species also allowed changes of mood through changes of planting, so an area could be dark and melancholic, or light and ebullient, or mysterious ; thus, contemporary gardens such as West Wycombe and Stourhead, both arranged as a walk around a lake, took the visitor through a range of locations, each with its own specific character and quite separate from the last.

The paintings of Claude Lorrain inspired Stourhead and other English landscape gardens

Although the royal forest of Selwood no longer exists, the nearby countryside is still richly wooded, for example on the Longleat, Maiden Bradley and Stourhead estates.

Stourhead has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1946.

The Stourton family, the Barons of Stourton, had lived in the Stourhead estate for 500 years until they sold it to Sir Thomas Meres in 1714.

” He worked on Stourhead between the years of 1749-1755.

* A miniature replica of Stourhead House featured as Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward's residence in the Thunderbirds television series.

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