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The Capability Brown Festival...

... has been the first ever national celebration of historic landscapes. We hope that the increased interest in Brown will have a long lasting legacy, making 2016 Festival the beginning of a renewed public interest and understanding of historical landscapes.

Thank you and goodbye

© Ceryl Evans
The Capability Brown Festival 2016 may be over...

... but we have put lots more information online so you can still explore Brown's sites and find out about his legacy.

just the beginning
Brown Abounds: A new legacy of information

The Capability Brown Festival year has been a spur for new research about Brown's work and for sharing existing information.

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2016 - a year of "Great Capabilites"

2016 was quite a year of tercentenary celebrations for Capability Brown. The Festival team have spent a little time looking over the news stories for the tercentenary year and have picked out some of our favourites to revisit.

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Who was Capability Brown?

Watch our cartoon to find out

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Find Capability Brown

There are more than 250 attributed and definite Lancelot Brown sites across the UK. Find one near you!

Find a landscape

© Weston Park

They call me Capability Brown

BrownCapability RT @RCSEdArchive: Born in London #OTD 1616, astrologer, apothecarist & botanist Nicholas Culpeper, who spent much of his life cataloguing m…
BrownCapability RT @ExploreChurches: We're going all 18th (century) today. Lancelot Capability Brown was probably England’s greatest landscape designer.…
BrownCapability #CapabilityBrown was first invited to #CorshamCourt #Wiltshire by Paul Methuen in 1759. He worked as both building… t.co/GteyliY8Ng
BrownCapability RT @HumphryRepton: Repton Tweet of the Day. #HumphryRepton’s original designs were recreated at Woburn in 2012, notably the Rockery and Pav…