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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Westbury Court
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(14km/9m SW of Gloucester) Britain's only surviving example of a late-17C Dutch garden, laid out in 1696–1703 in the fashion brought from Holland by *William III and *Mary. Westbury escaped alteration in the romantic phase of *landscape gardening, but by the 20C the yews and hollies had grown too large for their original more regimented purpose. They have recently been replanted and clipped into the shapes which can be seen, together with the surviving canal and Tall Pavilion, in the bird's eye view engraved by Johannes Kip in about 1707.
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