The next square into the workshop is Longleat, in Wiltshire — a kilometre centred on the house Sir John Thynne built between 1568 and 1580, one of the earliest and most complete Elizabethan houses in England.
The grounds around it were reworked two centuries later by Lancelot "Capability" Brown, whose lakes and tree lines still shape the parkland the house sits in. Longleat was the first stately home in the country to open to the public, in 1949, and in 1966 its grounds became the site of the first drive-through safari park outside Africa — a use the model has to hold alongside the formal gardens and the hedge maze near the house.
The square measures both: the symmetry of the house and its avenues, and the looser, wooded enclosures further out where the park opens up.
Coordinates: 51.173° N · 2.273° W. It joins the queue behind the rest of the library as we work through the print run.
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