To locate this garden, please search in Google maps: “stowe school, buckinghamshire”. Stowe School now occupies the main buildings at the centre of Stowe Park.
The gardens at Stowe in Buckinghamshire form one of the most significant and influential sites of garden history in England, and indeed in the world. It was here in the years 1711-79 that Sir Richard Temple (1675-1749), fist Viscount Cobham, and then his nephew and heir, Richard Grenville (1711-1779), second Earl Temple, brought together the work of nearly all the significant garden designers and landscape architects of this most fruitful age: Charles Bridgeman made the first layout of the grounds around 1711; thereafter Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), the...
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Citation: Clark, Robert. "Stowe Landscape Gardens". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 January 2010; last revised 27 July 2010. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=7210, accessed 09 June 2026.]
