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	Wedgwood, Boulton, and Henry Hoare II: patronage of the antique taste at Stourhead. - The Magazine Antiques \| ...
		Stourhead has several examples of these ornamented vases, such as the imposing pair of unmarked "Goats head vases," identified as shape number 14 of about 1769 to 1775.
		Nymphs seem to have frequented Stourhead: a framed set of Dancing Nymphs from Antichita di Ercolano hung in the Italian Room, and a statue of the Roman nymph Egeria inhabited the grotto.
		Christie's 1883 Stourhead heirlooms sale catalogue included six lots of Wedgwood, one of which was fl basalt; the others, primarily flower holders, were of blue Jasper--Wedgwood's innovative dense white stoneware with stained colored grounds introduced in 1775.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-147654482.html (4182 words)

	In England, a Tranquil Landscape by Design (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tucked away in a quiet corner of the Wiltshire countryside south of Bath, Stourhead is a self-contained 40-acre enclave of variously wooded slopes studded with temples, monuments and tumbling cascades, all arranged around a placid Y-shaped lake.
		Stourhead, begun in the early 1740's, belongs to the earliest phase of the landscape movement, sometimes called the pictorial stage.
		Stourhead is difficult to reach by public transportation — the closest train station is at Gillingham, which is more than six miles away.
	home.att.net /~gkrist/Stourhead.htm (1639 words)

	Stourhead
		Stourhead is a National Trust property in Wiltshire, an 18th.
		Zooming in on the Pantheon, like many of the follies at Stourhead it is easier to photograph from across the lake than it is nearer to it.
		Originally erected at the main crossroad in the City of Bristol in 1373, it was deemed to be an obstruction in 1733 and was moved to College Green by the Cathedral.
	travel.trainsferriesbuses.co.uk /stourhead.htm (495 words)

	Stourhead \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Wiltshire and Somerset \| Frommers.com
		Although Stourhead is a garden for all seasons, it is at its most idyllic in summer when rhododendrons are in full bloom.
		A neoclassical house, Stourhead was built in the 18th century by the Hoare banking family, who created 40 hectares (100 acres) of prime 18th-century landscaped gardens, complete with classical temples, lakes, and grottos.
		The art-filled house at Stourhead, designed by Colen Campbell, a leader in the neoclassical revival, was built for Henry Hoare I between 1721 and 1725.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/wiltshireandsomerset/A25382.html (491 words)

	Stourhead: Round and Round We Go - 12 July 2002
		Stourhead is one of the most famous examples of the seventeenth century, Romantic English style of gardens that was conceived as a contrast to the rigid French and Dutch gardens of the time.
		Stourhead used to be called Stourton, and the village is still called that.
		The temples at Stourhead were all built back when people still thought that the Classical temples were white.
	www.mjausson.com /2002/wiltshireJul07.htm (787 words)

	Art on File: Great Britain: Historic Garden Landscapes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1765, it was removed from Bristol and Henry Hoare brought it to Stourhead.
		Stourhead was inherited by Henry Hoare II from his father in 1741, at which time he began working on the estate.
		Stourhead was designed at a time when English gardens were enlivened with fantasy, architectural features were added to animate the horizon and settings were made to transport the viewer abroad or create a mood of contemplation or melancholy.
	libweb.uoregon.edu /catdept/digcol/aaa/stourhead.html (447 words)

	Stourhead Garden - a review from the Garden and Landscape Guide
		Stourhead is the best example of a garden inspired by the great landscape painters of the seveneeenth century.
		The Stourhead garden was made by a wealthy English banker who had been buying works of art in Italy at the time he inherited the Stourhead estate.
		Stourhead Landscape Garden is very famous and very beautiful, in fact I think it is the prettiest of the landscape gardens in England.
	www.gardenvisit.com /garden/stourhead_garden (251 words)

	Stourhead Gardens
		From the size of the specimen at Stourhead, I felt certain that this Davidia must have been one of those original seedlings.
		There was no time to take any side trails, just a liesurely stroll around the lake on a cloudy day for an hour and a half, and then we would have to hit the road again.
		The setting at Stourhead is surely a delight at all times of the day, every day of the year.
	www.tjhsst.edu /~dhyatt/trip/stourhead.shtml (363 words)

	Stourhead, Wiltshire
		Stourhead, the seat of the baronet family of Hoare, on the SW verge of Wiltshire, 2 1/4 miles NW of Mere.
		It was erected in High Street, Bristol, 1373; restored and one stage added, 1633; taken down in 1733, and shortly afterwards erected on Colleg Green, Bristol; again taken down in 1763; given to Henry Hoare, Esq.
		of Stourhead, by whom it was removed and erected there, 1766; restored by Sir Henry Hugh Hoare, sixth baronet, in 1895, it then having fallen into a most dangerous condition.
	www.uk-genealogy.org.uk /england/Wiltshire/towns/Stourhead.html (205 words)

	Classic Sights - Stourhead
		Lying in secluded privacy in its own valley, Stourhead is one of the finest landscape gardens in the world.
		The woodland and chalk downland of the wider estate is managed for nature conservation and includes two Iron Age hill forts and King Alfred's Tower — a 50m-high folly built in 1772 by Henry Flitcroft, with spectacular views across three counties.
		Heritage: Stourhead House and Garden, King Alfred's Tower, Iron-age and Neolithic hill forts are all part of the 6,000 year-old story of the estate.
	www.classicsights.org /stourhead.html (262 words)

	Alfred's Tower, Stourhead, Wiltshire
		The garden at Stourhead is the jewel in the National Trust's crown.
		If we treat a garden as important as Stourhead in an apparently desultory fashion, it is because there is already such a wealth of accurate and accessible information about the place that little or no amplification is needed in a work of this nature.
		Stourhead is romantic fact - it exists; Fonthill is romantic fiction - it doesn't.
	www.heritage.co.uk /follies/ffwi22.html (853 words)

	Romantic Driving Tours
		Before starting your tour of Stourhead Gardens you may wish to grab lunch either in Stourton or in the village of Burton just 6 miles west of Stourton where an ancient packhorse bridge still stands.
		Stourhead was created in the mid 18th century by a wealthy banker named Henry Hoare.
		Exit at the B3092 north toward Maiden Bradley and Frome and watch for the signs to Stourhead and Stourton, 3 miles north-west of Mere.
	www.romanticplaces.com /driving/england_day3.html (601 words)

	King Alfred's Tower
		The project to build the tower was conceived in 1762 by the banker Henry Hoare II (1705-1785), owner of Stourhead and creator of its famous garden, known to his family as 'the Magnificent'.
		The 'front' (south-east) face of the tower has the gothic-arched entrance door, a statue of King Alfred, and a stone panel bearing an inscription.
		This is the face that most visitors see first when walking from Stourhead garden or from the nearby car park.
	www.alfredstower.info (695 words)

	Wiltshire walking route and map NoW19 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		General:- A 7.3 mile (10.3 miles if you are visiting Stourhead Gardens) undulating route that has a lot to offer.
		From A303:- Turn off towards Stourhead on the B3092 at ST 7927 3230.
		Continue on, ignoring signs to Stourhead, and take the third road on the left by Caldcot Cottage @ ST 7825 3476.
	www.walkweb.org.uk /w19_information.htm (321 words)

	Stourhead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stourton family had lived in the Stourhead estate for 700 hundred years when they sold it to Henry Hoare I, son of wealthy banker Sir Richard Hoare in 1717.
		Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, whose heir had been killed in World War I, gave the house to the National Trust in 1946, one year before his death.
		The lake at Stourhead, view to the Temple of Flora.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stourhead (403 words)

	Stourhead Landscape Garden in Wiltshire
		An amateur creation, Stourhead was made for the most part by two members of the Hoare family, Henry Hoare (1705-1785) and his grandson Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838).
		The main features of the gardens were virtually complete by 1783, and they have been little changed since then, apart for the introduction in the nineteenth century of ornamental and exotic trees and shrubs.
		When the form of the gardens at Stourhead was established, the instructed visitor was meant to stroll in a certain direction, following and receiving a succession of hints and statements provided by grotto, inscription, urn and temple which alluded to episodes in Virgil's Aeneid, book III.
	www.sisley.co.uk /stourhead.shtml (446 words)

	Writer's Block, Fiction, Ashes to Stourhead - Fall 2000
		I have been to Stourhead Gardens, Warminster, Wiltshire, England 12 times in my lifetime, thousands of times in my dreams.
		I think for a moment that the guard is contemplating asking my husband why he has wrapped his tape recorder in his underwear and what the label on the tape means.
		In between is the beginning of the garden, the entry into Stourhead, the beginning of my end-beginning.
	www.writersblock.ca /fall2000/fiction.htm (3042 words)

	Stourhead House Wiltshire
		Campbell was a leader of the fashionable neo-classical revival and Stourhead, as Hoare named his new home, was one of the first Palladian houses to be built in England.
		There are also pieces brought to Stourhead in the 19th century from Wavedon, the Hoare's family house in Buckinghamshire.
		Although Stourhead is a fine house it is overshadowed by its beautiful garden.
	www.touruk.co.uk /houses/housewilts_stour.htm (867 words)

	Stourhead Gardens
		Stourhead is reason enough to visit England all by itself.
		It is one of the best examples of the English landscape style of garden; a brilliant Arcadian design begun by Henry Hoare in 1741, incorporating ever changing vistas around a lake, replete with temples to Apollo and Flora, a rock bridge, a cascade, a pantheon, a thatched cottage, and a grotto.
		Also part of the Stourhead estate are the Iron Age hillforts of Whitesheet Hill and Park Hill Camp.
	www.britainexpress.com /counties/wiltshire/gardens/stourhead.htm (546 words)

	BBC - Wiltshire - About Wiltshire - David Niven's Stourhead connection
		Many were invited to Stourhead to enjoy football in the park, fishing on the lake and reading and singing in the house.
		Sir Henry Hoare, gave permission for an airfield to be built on the Stourhead estate, which was then used between 1941-45, by the British, American, Canadian and New Zealand air forces.
		Gary Calland, House Manager at Stourhead, told BBC Wiltshire, “We need the help of as many people as possible to enable us to achieve a greater understanding of life at Stourhead during the two World Wars.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wiltshire/content/articles/2004/11/25/stourhead_at_war_251104_feature.shtml (544 words)

	Stourhead House
		Stourhead was built about 1720-24 for the banker Henry Hoare.
		Believing that Andrea Palladio was the true heir to the Roman architect Vitruvius, Campbell adapted the plan and elevations of Palladio’s Villa Emo, near Venice (begun 1564).
		Stourhead, therefore, is a Venetian villa adapted to an English setting.
	www.architecture.com /HowwebuiltBritain/HistoricalPeriods/GeorgianWestandIreland/Palladianismandlandscapegardening/StourheadHouse.aspx (260 words)

	Stourhead Gardens, Wiltshire by Judith Webb - Pastel Drawing - Mini Gallery
		Stourhead Wiltshire is famous for its incredible garden's which are approached by wonderful tranquil shady walkways.
		The sloping path which descends gradually downwards, suddenly provides spectacular view of the lake and the classical temples that are along the path.
		In the autumn the Japanese maples with their striking coloured leaves can be seen amongst the woods which are ablaze with such a profusion of yellows and gold's.
	www.minigallery.co.uk /Judith_Webb/art25680 (386 words)

	stourhead.html
		Stourhead was built in the 1740s by wealthy banker Henry Hoare.
		He bagan by building dams on several streams to raise a lake, around which he then planted trees.
		The Pantheon houses statues of Hercules by Rysbrack, and the Latin inscription establishes parallels between Aeneas (who sought a new home in Rome) and Hoare (who sought a new home in Wiltshire).
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~rviau/ids/Artworks/stourhead.html (112 words)

	Stourhead's Paradise - Walks - The AA
		Beautifully preserved, consisting of a pleasing group of 18th-century cottages, an inn, St Peter's Church and a graceful medieval cross, its unique atmosphere is attributable to the glorious views across a lake and one of Europe's finest landscaped parkland gardens.
		National Trust members and visitors who have paid to enter the Stourhead gardens and house can bear right just before the gatehouse and walk through the walled garden and across a bridge to return to the car park via the visitor centre.
		But Stourhead is more famous for its gardens, designed by Henry Hoare II and laid out between 1741 and 1745.
	www.theaa.com /travel/details/walk/421223 (1235 words)

	First-View Art Gallery Stourhead
		First-View art gallery is situated on the National Trust Stourhead property but is independently owned and operated by Jane Parfitt in premises that were formerly used as part of a shop and store.
		Stourhead is one of the busiest properties of the National Trust and is situated near the A303, on the Wiltshire side of the border with Somerset and Dorset.
		Stourhead House was formerly the home of the Hoare family and was given to the Trust in 1946.
	www.first-view.co.uk (405 words)

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