Stourhead gardens.

A few pics of Stourhead Gardens, Wiltshire.

 

Stunning colours and beautiful views.

 

Stunning colours and beautiful views. Thanks for sharing your visit.

 

Love the autumn colours on some stunning pictures.
Looks to me like a grand day out.
Thanks for sharing

 

Stuning topical pics.Strongy........................:gnthb:

 

Simply stunning and beautiful!!

What are the buildings in the back ground in the first picture?

 

Penny, it is a church, there many 'follies' too, that is, a building of no value or use, just something wealthy folk like to add to the gardens in their Stately Homes. there are also couple of temples, purpose made caves with a view (pic 6), cave like boathouses and other interesting things around the lake.:gnthb:

Yes Cap, a Grand Day Out followed by the next day in Bath, a grand city like York.:thumb:

 

Ahhh ok, thanks.......what a beautiful spot.

 

Lovely pictures Strongy. They say this has been an unusually good year for the autumn colours.

So a folly is a sort of duckhouse in the shape of the Houses of Parliament? :D

 

Quack quack:D

 

Lovely pictures, My favorite is no 1

 

I guess when they built that bridge even though cameras hadn't been invented, they must have known what a picture it would make.

 

I guess this ground belonged some dynasty. Do you know about last hosts of this manor?

 

Slatta, the estate was owned by the Stounton family for 700 years but not as we see it now.
It was bought by the Hoare family who were wealthy Bankers in the 1700's and had the gardens landscaped, they rebuilt the house and they eventually sold it to the National Trust in 1946.

 

Twice in nearly 2 weeks have I now come across these gardens. I have never heard of the gardens until recently.

One of my fellow bloggers wrote about this place at the end of the year

http://moonstonegardens.blogspot.com/2009/12/virtual-garden-tour-of-stourhead.html

She has different photos to you Strongylogon which you might be interested in.

Those maples are something special in your photos.