The spirit of Stourhead
A few years ago, a community of Stourhead’s visitors, volunteers and staff, wrote a statement describing the spirit of the place. They wrote:
Spending time within this living work of art inspires body, mind and spirit, offers light and shade and leads us on and out along many paths. It is a journey for all that engages the senses, steadies the soul and restores the spirits. It is a place to treasure and share in all moods and in every season.
But what does Stourhead me to you?
Here are a few of the ways that you can pause, notice and reflect during your next visit in 2020.
Follow the oak leaves
Throughout the garden you’ll discover a series of large oak leaves, placed in special locations throughout the garden. The leaves are a gentle invitation to notice the natural environment around you in that moment.
What sounds can you hear? What textures will you notice in the sky or changing upon the lake’s surface? No two visits will be the same.