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    Painshill (also referred to as "Pains Hill" in some 19th-century texts), near Cobham, Surrey, England, is one of the finest remaining examples of an 18th-century...
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    Street, a significant number of primary and private schools and the Painshill landscape park. Cobham appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Covenham and in 13th...
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    Bowood House (category Grade I listed parks and gardens in Wiltshire)
    landscape garden created by Charles Hamilton on his Surrey estate, Painshill Park. Hamilton was then asked to improve on Capability Brown's design. Working...
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    his grotto. There are grottoes in the landscape gardens of Painshill Park, Stowe, Clandon Park, and Stourhead. Scott's Grotto is a series of interconnected...
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    gardens with a "hermitage", sometimes a Gothic ruin, but sometimes, as at Painshill Park, a romantic hut which a "hermit" was recruited to occupy. The so-called...
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    metres (16 ft) from the river to feed the ornamental lake in the park. From Painshill Park the river flows northeastwards to the Thames, passing to the west...
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    form of Roman temples, ruined Gothic abbeys, or Egyptian pyramids. Painshill Park in Surrey contained almost a full set, with a large Gothic tower and...
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    south at a main road and school separating Chatley Heath in Wisley and Painshill Park, Cobham. With its broad summit this minimum prominence results in views...
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  • She died in 1772, aged 39. He was the creator of Painshill Park Hamilton was forced to sell Painshill in 1773 as he was being pressed to repay loans to...
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    public library and its gardens have become a public park (Manor House Gardens). Mansion at Painshill Park, near Cobham, Surrey (1774) Entrance and wings of...
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