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| | Magazine Antiques: The waterways of Castle Howard |
 | | II), the Honorable Simon Howard exclaimed: "We had one of the greatest views in England and couldn't even see the main lake." (2) He was referring to the tangle of reeds and rampant trees that bad gradually overcome the ponds and destroyed their fragile banks since early in the twentieth century, finally obscuring the view. |
 | | Before coming to Castle Howard, Nesfield was already engaged at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in creating the great vista to Syon House across the Thames, the Broad Walk, the Pagoda Vista, and the parterres of the Palm House terrace, which have basically remained intact. |
 | | According to Christopher Ridgway, the present curator of Castle Howard, very few archival plans remain to document the improvements made during the Nesfield period, but an extensive correspondence and accounts survive that trace the progress of the collaboration between Nesfield and the resident agent, John Henderson (w c. |
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