overview
Rousham and its landscape garden should be a place of pilgrimage for students of the work of William Kent (1685-1748). Rousham represents the first phase of English landscape design and remains almost as Kent left it, one of the few gardens of this date to have escaped alteration, with many features which delighted eighteenth century visitors to Rousham still in situ, such as the ponds and cascades in Venus’s Vale, the Cold Bath, and seven arched Praeneste, Townsend’s Building, the Temple of the Mill, and, on the skyline, a sham ruin known as the ‘Eyecatcher’.
gallery
address
Steeple Aston,Oxford,
Oxfordshire,
OX25 4QU,
United Kingdom
nearest airports
nearest motorways
- M40 JCT 10 (4.9 miles)
- M40 JCT 9 (5.6 miles)
- M40 JCT 11 (10.9 miles)
nearest train station
- Heyford (0.4 miles)
- Tackley (2.3 miles)
- Bicester North (6.6 miles)
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