Rousham

“We used scientific modelling to ascertain where no houses could be seen from the Rousham valley and this 783 acre farm accomplishes that. “We are not seeking to compare in scale with the existing community. We wouldn't swamp it or intrude. We are ...

The exhibition on William Kent, Designing Georgian Britain, closes tomorrow at the V&A museum in London. But to understand the genius of the man, you need to spend a day in one of his gardens (preferably Rousham), not trapped among his architectural ...

Either way, one of the earliest and least changed examples of the English landscape style can be found at Rousham in Oxfordshire. It is still owned by descendants of General Dormer who commissioned Kent to extend the house and update the landscape in ...

While these gardens are featured in a video in the final room of the exhibition, where visitors can also enjoy a selection of diverting (if familiar) drawings and garden plans, as well as a bench from Rousham, Kent's landscapes are not explored in ...

Leonie Rousham is 16 and lives in Brixton. Here she tells us how, over the long school holidays, she and her friends have learned make £5 stretch to a day out – including lunch – in her increasingly expensive home town. Money is tight as holidays have ...

If you love things on a magnificent scale, with all-out exuberant flowers romping away, you'll love the dahlia bed at Rousham, the perfect 18th-century house and garden on the banks of the River Cherwell, near Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire. The bed is ...