Painshill (also referred to as "Pains Hill" in some 19th-century texts), near Cobham, Surrey, England, is one of the finest remaining examples of an 18th-century...
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beside an adjoining lake. Both Painshill and Hawkstone Park were said to have employed ornamental hermits. The one at Painshill, hired by The Hon. Charles...
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High Street, a significant number of primary and private schools and the Painshill landscape park. Cobham appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Covenham and...
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Highgrove House estate's farm and gardens to organic management. In 1998, Painshill was awarded the Europa Nostra Medal for its restoration of the 18th century...
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gardens with a "hermitage", sometimes a Gothic ruin, but sometimes, as at Painshill Park, a romantic hut which a "hermit" was recruited to occupy. The so-called...
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to restore his grotto. There are grottoes in the landscape gardens of Painshill Park, Stowe, Clandon Park, and Stourhead. Scott's Grotto is a series of...
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the form of Roman temples, ruined Gothic abbeys, or Egyptian pyramids. Painshill Park in Surrey contained almost a full set, with a large Gothic tower...
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cave-like structures, like the weathered rock and crystal "Crystal Grotto" at Painshill in Surrey, before falling out of favour altogether. These were mostly...
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p. 350. ISBN 978-0-5218-1422-5. "HAMILTON, Hon. Charles (1704–86), of Painshill, nr. Cobham, Surr. | History of Parliament Online". Archived from the...
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Somerley were used for Hampstead Heath. Garden scenes were filmed at Painshill near Cobham and the Commissioner's House in Chatham. Filming locations...
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