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Last updated on 21 February 08
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Shotover House Garden

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A house and garden made in 1718 for a friend of two famous empiricists, John Locke and Robert Boyle. The design is French-influenced, with a straignt canal. But it has the earliest example of a Gothic revival folly and an octagonal temple designed by William Kent in the 1730s.
Address Shotover, Oxfordshire, England
Opening times Open under National Garden Scheme.

Designers and Influences

This garden has been designed and influenced by William Kent, John Locke

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