This year has seen a number of events at locations across England and Wales celebrating the magnificent landscapes created by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and these are set to continue with a range of events in support of Heritage Open Days. The open days take place from the 8^th of September to the 11^th of September.

Talks, walks, performances, exhibitions and other activities are taking place with free access to the gardens and houses at a selection of famous properties, as well as lesser known private and public secret green spaces and community gardening projects with fascinating stories to tell.

Here is a small taste of some of the 27 special events taking place to celebrate sites created by the grandfather of landscape architecture:

Roam around 250 acres of garden at Stowe in Buckinghamshire, where Brown looked after the gardens from 1741-1751.

Discover a secret landscape with guided tours of a lost Capability Brown gem at the Woodlands Farm in Staffordshire which was part of the Fisherwick Estate.

Excite your senses at Sheffield Park and Gardens, East Sussex with their ‘Playing with perspective’ trail involving mirrors, sounds and textures and see the garden from a whole new perspective.

Visit Cadland Gardens in Hampshire and take a guided tour of Capability Brown’s smallest surviving pleasure garden.

Enjoy access to an 18th century Palladian mansion designed by Capability Brown for Clive of India at Claremont House in Surrey.

Cross one of only four Palladian bridges in the world, take in sweeping views of the World Heritage City of Bath, and learn about the mysteries surrounding Capability Brown in Prior Park Landscape Garden, Somerset.

‘Walk with Capability’ at Temple Newsam Park, in West Yorkshire and enjoy a circular stroll with Capability Brown through the landscape to see some of his grand designs for the estate.

As a special treat for Heritage Open Days visitors, Burton Constable in Yorkshire is offering free admission to the grounds and stables with guided tours of the parkland in the county’s best documented landscape by Capability Brown.

Heritage Open Days are one of the Capability Brown Festival’s partners and is co-ordinated and promoted nationally by the National Trust.

For more details of these and other events at Capability Brown sites at part of Heritage Open Days visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk