A NATIONAL Trust property near Leominster is to feature on one of eight special stamps launched to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
Capability Brown is remembered as ‘the last of the great eighteenth century artists’ and as ‘England’s greatest gardener’, designing the landscapes of country estates.
In 1778, he supplied a landscape plan for Thomas Harley at Berrington Hall, working there in perfect partnership with his son-in-law, the architect, Henry Holland Jnr.
Berrington features as one of the best-loved examples of Capability Brown's work in Royal Mail’s Landscape Gardens stamps.
David Bailey, general manager at Berrington Hall, said: “We are honoured and delighted to have been chosen to have the wonderful surroundings at Berrington Hall on a stamp.”
Other locations featured on the stamps are Blenheim Palace, Longleat, Compton Verney, Highclere Castle, Alnwick Castle, Berrington Hall, Stowe and Croome Park.
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