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Introduction to Flitwick Manor Park 1

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Other images shown in workshops can be seen at BARS and included 1717 Estate Map, showing the Elizabethan House and the orchards and gardens around it – before the landscape park was created. 1838 Brooks’ Frontispiece, watercolour of park/house from his gardening diary. The view from the east park across Flit Waster, with deer in the middle ground, and house, church and ornamental ruin in the far distance 1838 Garden Plan from Brooks’ Diary – showing coloured walks and numbered key to all the features in the park and garden. The suggested walks took different routes and were labelled as Spring or Summer Walks. One walk takes in the Motte to the west, another goes through the arboretum and lists many rustic buildings and summerhouses. 4

1901 25-inch OS map 1901 25-inch OS map – with thanks to the Ordnance Survey 5

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