 |  | | | Hawkstone Park | 18 Oct 2006 | | |
As garden design grew ever more bold in the 18th and 19th centuries, the park at Hawkstone in Shropshire built in the 1700s served as a reminder of God's supreme power over man and nature.
The follies of rock caverns and mountains covering 15 miles of rugged terrain in North Shropshire were built by the Methodist Richard Hill as a kind of temple to Nature and God.
He opened the park to the public and visitors came to Hawkstone to rediscover nature as society became more and more urbanised following the industrial revolution. In her book This Other Eden, Andrea Wulf notes that Hawkstone coincided with the Romantic period, a time when Europeans were discovering the joys of the wilderness, and mountains, keen to discover the thrills of experiencing nature in the raw. She took Maggie Ayre on a tour of the park.
This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History by Andrea Wulf and Emma Gieben-Gamal is published by Little Brown: ISBN 0-316-72580-3
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