Successful outing to Bowood House & Gardens, Wiltshire
Bowood House is home to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne and surrounded by 2,000 acres of Grade I listed ‘Capability’ Brown parkland. Begun c1720. It was purchased by the 2nd Earl of Shelburne in 1754 and completed soon afterwards.Interesting rooms include Robert Adam’s library; the Laboratory where Dr Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in 1774; […]