Reconstruction of Historic Landscapes

When the eccentric and reclusive connoisseur William Beckford (1760-1844), having exhausted the largest inherited fortune in England, finally abandoned his doomed architectural extravaganza at Fonthill Abbey, he retired to Bath. His enthusiasm for tower-building soon revived, and with the help of his trusted gardener Vincent and an able young architect Henry Goodrich he set about making a linear landscape garden stretching from his home in Lansdown Crescent to the hilltop 100m above. Though the Crescent house he lived in, and the tower he built on the hill, survive with little change, everything in between is now lost beneath more recent development.

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Paul Richens

Marion Harney

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Publication date: July 2011

Publication date (Print): July 2011

Pages: 1-2

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[0001]University of Bath

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2011.1

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 6 - 8 July 2011

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011)

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Reconstruction of Historic Landscapes

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