A history and tour of this exceptionally beautiful designed
landscape in North Yorkshire. Dubbed "the Wonder of the North" in
1732, the National Trust's Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Estate
(now a World Heritage Site) encompasses one of the largest, most
magnificent and beautiful designed landscapes ever created. This
richly illustrated volume charts the landscape's history from the
first arrival of prehistoric hunters, via medieval monasticism, the
Dissolution of the monasteries, eighteenth-century aestheticism and
scandal, and the first ages of mass tourism, to the present day. At
the heart of the story lies the rise and fall of England's largest
Cistercian monastery and how that shaped the origins of the
Aislabie family's breathtaking gardens. Their Studley Royalwas at
the forefront of every emergent landscape gardening fashion between
1670 and 1800. The book also describes the dramatic history of the
family and the monumental scale of their achievements in this
field, extending over many dozens of square miles of North
Yorkshire - far beyond the limits of the garden as it is seen today
(reduced to serve the more limited needs of Victorian
day-trippers). The Wonder of the North brings social and garden
history together with archaeology to reveal Fountains Abbey and
Studley Royal - too often seen as "just" a ruined medieval
monastery - as one of the world's greatest artistic creations. Mark
Newman has been the National Trust's archaeological adviser for
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal estate since 1988. He was also
resident there, living in Fountains Hall from 1988-1995.
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