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Capability Brown's unfinished garden

Capability Brown is known as the founder of landscape design, working on some of the greatest estates in Britain from Blenheim and Burghley to Milton Abbey and Castle Ashby.

But there is one design that never got off the drawing board - his own garden at Fenstanton in Cambridgeshire.

Brown died before he could carry out the landscaping plans for Fenstanton, and his vision lay hidden away in drawings and letters.

Landscape designer Bunny Guinness travels across England to some of Capability's finest landscapes to understand what he might have created.

Using historic records and the latest technology, she pieces together what Capability Brown's unfinished garden might have looked like.

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4 minutes