Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, shaping the Midlands
2016 marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, one of England’s best known landscape gardeners. A man considered to have changed the national landscape and created a style which has shaped people’s picture of the quintessential English countryside. In the Midlands, the gardens and parklands at Berrington Hall, Charlecote Park and Croome have all been shaped by Brown, to varying degrees.