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Preview: Capability Brown's unfinished garden

Capability Brown is known as the founder of landscape design. Three hundred years ago he created some of the most magnificent landscapes in England. He travelled the length and breadth of the country, improving more than 200 of the greatest estates in the land, for some of the most influential people in the eighteenth century. But there is one plan that never got off the drawing board - his own garden. The only land he ever owned was in Fenstanton Cambridgeshire. He died before he could carry out his plans. Bunny Guinness travels across England to some of Capability鈥檚 finest landscapes - Blenheim, Burghley, Milton Abbey and Castle Ashby - to understand what he might have created. Rediscovering plans and letters and using the latest technology Capability Brown鈥檚 unfinished garden is brought to life.

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