{"id":10899,"date":"2016-06-01T10:07:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10899"},"modified":"2016-06-01T10:07:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:07:45","slug":"capability-brown-in-kent-book-review-by-tom-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/capability-brown-in-kent-book-review-by-tom-turner\/","title":{"rendered":"Capability Brown in Kent – book review by Tom Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Capability Brown in Kent, published by the Kent Gardens Trust, is available from Amazon<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Congratulations to Kent Gardens Trust for producing a book on Lancelot Capability Brown’s work in Kent. Despite there being little of his work in Kent, the\u00a0content is interesting and the book is very nicely produced. I particularly commend the editors for their use of plans. Far too many ‘garden history’ books make no use of plans. Instead, they use long descriptions of garden designs that are hard to read and must have been difficult to write. Using plans is so much better. They can be understood at a glance and they let the reader make comparisons between what the designer intended, shown on historical plans, and the present condition of the gardens. The present day plans in this book (by Liz Logan and Rowan Blaik) were done using OpenData from the Ordnance \u00a0Survey. It is great that the OS allows their data to be used in this way – I wish Google and Bing allowed satellite maps to be used in a similar fashion. There is much to be learned from air photography.<\/p>\n

The gardens analysed in the book are:<\/p>\n