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Simon Thurley, English Heritage's chief executive, said: Wrest Park tells the story of England's love affair with landscape.
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Wrest Park opens to the public on Thursday, revealing the first fruits of an ambitious 20-year restoration plan.
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Wrest Park was owned by the De Grey family for nearly 700 years and there are three key stages in the landscape's history – the formal woodland garden created by Henry, Duke of Kent, in 1706; changes made under the direction of Jemima, Marchioness Grey, in the 18th century's latter half; and then the work of her grandson Thomas, Earl de Grey, from 1833.
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John Watkins, head of gardens and landscape at English Heritage, said Wrest Park was unusual because it retained designs from the 17th century to the 20th century.
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The 90 acres of Wrest Park in Bedfordshire are unarguably magnificent, probably Britain's largest "secret garden", with surprises around every wooded corner.
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A great gardening pioneer he may have been, but it is clear that while at Wrest, Brown was the "hired help".
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After Thomas, the gardens were looked after well with the house remaining remained in the family until Auberon Herbert in 1905, who leased Wrest Park to the US ambassador.
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"This was before we took over the site, and it highlighted to us the importance of getting Wrest Park into protection," said Watkins.
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So now with the successful completion of this first phase of restoration, Wrest Park can rightfully reclaim its place as one of the great gardens of England.
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Wrest control of the media away from those who control it now, instead of proposing new legislation like Joe Biden's that mandates corporate control over anything that is said, written, or transmitted electronically - going so far as to define a new felony offense for circumventing corporate "digital rights management" or simply avoiding it altogether.
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