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| | Corsham Court and Bowood House, England. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com |
 | | Ten miles east of Corsham, off the A342 Chippenham–Devizes road and just outside the village of Calne, Bowood House (April–Oct daily 11am–6pm; £5.90; www.bowood-estate.co.uk) was designed in the eighteenth century by the likes of Henry Keene, Charles Barry and – again – Robert Adam. |
 | | Adam was primarily responsible for the great south front and the Orangery, and, inside the house, the library – though the present appearance of this owes more to Charles Robert Cockerell, architect of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, who also built the Neoclassical chapel. |
 | | But it is the magnificent grounds of Bowood that are the real draw, with rhododendron gardens, a Doric temple on the banks of its placid lake and a waterfall in the woods; there's also an adventure playground for kids, and a restaurant. |
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