Parks

NOTES: Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was responsible for the landscaping of the gardens while Henry Holland built the mansion.

NOTES: The owner of the existing late-17th century house engaged Humphry Repton to landscape his grounds. Repton's Red Book also contained suggestions for the alteration of the existing house. The work of enlarging and altering, however, was given to William Wilkins the elder with his son completing the works. In 1968 part of the house was demolished removing, in essence, all the work by the Wilkins and leaving what seems to be a wing of the 17th century house.

NOTES: The screen by Decimus Burton was built in 1828.

NOTES: Coombe Conduit, comprising two buildings connected by an underground tunnel, was one of three conduits supplying water to Hampton Court Palace, built 1538-1545. This system supplied water to the Palace until 1876.

NOTES: The gate lodges and North Gates at the London Road entrance to the park were the gift of Sir Jonathan North, a former mayor of Leicester, in memory of his wife who died in 1930.

NOTES: The gate lodges and North Gates at the London Road entrance to the park were the gift of Sir Jonathan North, a former mayor of Leicester, in memory of his wife who died in 1930.

NOTES: The gate lodges and North Gates at the London Road entrance to the park were the gift of Sir Jonathan North, a former mayor of Leicester, in memory of his wife who died in 1930. See RIBA94632 for a variant of this design.

NOTES: The gate lodges and North Gates at the London Road entrance to the park were the gift of Sir Jonathan North, a former mayor of Leicester, in memory of his wife who died in 1930.