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Earls, Countesses, and Landscape Designers One of England's grandest homes, Castle Howard has been inspiring awe and envy for 250 years.
It also helps a person realize how much power and wealth (which goes hand in hand with power) was possessed by the English aristocracy in the 18th century. |
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|  | "I have been here before," I said; I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June, when the ditches were white with fool's parsley and meadowsweet and the air heavy with all the scents of summer; it was a day of peculiar splendour, such as our climate affords once or twice a year, when leaf and flower and bird and sun-lit stone and shadow all seem to proclaim the glory of God; and though I had been there so often, in so many moods, it was to that first visit that my heart returned on this, my latest."
Evelyn Waugh, "Brideshead Revisted" |
| | Evelyn Waugh almost certainly had Castle Howard in mind as one of the models for the idlyllic country house he depicted in his novel "Brideshead Revisited." And it was fortunate that the makers of the TV series based on the book were able to gain permission to film here. The on-location filming of scenes on the grounds and in the house itself add immeasurably to the fascination of the multi-part mini-series. I recently watched it all again, enjoying once more Charles Ryder (Jeremy Irons) and Sebastian Flyte (the incomparable Anthony andrews) as they played around the gardens. And who can forget Lord Marchmain's (Laurence Olivier) dying scenes? |
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nickandchris Tue Nov 6, 2007 22:19 UTC
God tips and lovely photos. I agree so much about not being restricted to paths in such places as stately homes. | lou31 Tue Sep 18, 2007 15:17 UTC
Another pleasant page. I agree with you on the Atlas fountain...it's a beauty! | Travmad Mon Jul 24, 2006 01:40 UTC
Someday I'll get up north. |
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