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Stourhead
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(45km/28m W of Salisbury) One of England's first *Palladian mansions, commissioned from Colen *Campbell by a successful banker, Henry Hoare, and completed in 1725. (The two projecting wings were added in the 1790s.) It was Henry Hoare's son, also Henry, who began in 1743 to create the *landscape garden which is now the primary cause of Stourhead's fame. He dammed the river Stour and placed a curving stone bridge across his new lake at the focal point of the view. He and his architect, Henry Flitcroft (1697–1769), then dotted the landscape with classical follies – a pantheon, temples of Apollo and of Flora, a grotto – to turn it into a living version of a painting by Claude.
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