Recent trip to Stourhead and Buscot Park Estate
2nd October 2023
This was an all day coach based trip as part of the induction week programme for new landscape students, going to Stourhead https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wiltshire/stourhead a large landscape park estate designed by Henry Hoare in 1750s, and Buscot Park Estate very much a Italianate formal landscape garden with an Arts and Crafts style. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/oxfordshire-buckinghamshire-berkshire/buscot-park It was a fantastic opportunity for all new students of the BA and MA and MA conversion to see Stourhead (1754), probably one of the world’s finest landscape gardens, and in contrast Buscot Park (1805) a picturesque country estate (1780) with a twentieth century garden designed by Harold Peto, with some of Britain’s best water gardens. Both these locations explore the use of scale, landform, spatial hierarchy and narrative design approaches at a very high level and are a good introduction to understanding the palette of the landscape architect.
Jamie Liversedge