Althorp, Northampton, England

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Brief description of site

Althorp is a 19th-century landscape park with traces of an earlier formal layout and 20th-century gardens. The park covers about 225 hectares within a 5600-hectare agricultural estate.

Brief history of site

John Spencer purchased the estate in 1508, and acquired licences to crenellate and impark. The park dates from 1512 and has since been extended. Carved stones record planting between 1597 and 1901. The park adjacent to the house was landscaped by Samuel Lapidge and Henry Holland in about 1790, and redesigned in 1860 by W.M. Teulon. The gardens were redesigned in the late-20th to early-21st centuries.

Location information:

OS Landranger Map Sheet Number:	152	Grid Ref:	SP682651
Latitude:	52.27982	Longitude:	-1.001756

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