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Cassiobury Park The Postcard Collection (Paperback)
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Cassiobury Park The Postcard Collection (Paperback)
Series: The Postcard Collection
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Cassiobury Park has an incredible history. Not only is it one of
the remnants of the greatest lost estates in the country, it is now
one of the most popular parks in the country and locally is the
largest park in Hertfordshire, and the principal park of its
primary town, Watford. It covers an impressive area which is twice
the size of Hyde Park in London. Arthur Capel was made the Earl of
Essex and in time moved to Cassiobury. The Capels had a major
impact on Cassiobury. By 1800, the 5th Earl of Essex employed noted
and respected architect James Wyatt to rebuild his house.
Successive landscape gardeners were employed here, from Moses Cook
to Humphry Repton, with the landscape captured by J. M. W. Turner
on visits to Cassiobury. By 1881, the parkland was already well
established with fine trees, woodland walks, with many deer in the
park, often traded with the royal deer parks at Richmond, Bushy and
Windsor Great Park. By the beginning of the twentieth century,
decline had set in and large areas of the park had been sold off to
Watford Borough Council for public parkland - the beginnings of the
public park we know today. Cassiobury Park: The Postcard Collection
takes the reader on an evocative journey into the park's rich past
through a selection of old postcards that offer a fascinating
window into its history and continuing development.
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