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English: Downton Castle Looking north to the castle from the track, which runs through the Downton Estate. This is just about the nearest publicly accessible viewpoint for this privately-owned castle. Richard Payne Knight inherited the estate in 1772 and he designed and built the castle, which was completed in 1778. The castle has a classical interior, but the exterior is all battlements and towers, reflecting Knight's passion for the Picturesque style. Of the 4,500-acre estate, the 900-acre area along the Teme Gorge (now a National Nature Reserve) was developed into a Picturesque landscape - wild and rugged and in deliberate contrast to the tame parkland being developed at the time by Capability Brown. Terraced gardens were later added by W A Nesfield in 1865. Since 1927, the castle has been the seat of the Clan Lennox.
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| Author | Trevor Rickard |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Trevor Rickard and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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