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Grounds of Dodington House (D5571/1/2)

This image comes from an album of photographs taken between 1883 and 1917. This particular view, looking roughly south-west from near Coomb’s End, shows the scale of landscaping that could be undertaken. The edge of one of the twin lakes can just be made out in front of Dodington House. Known as ‘rides’ – simply because they offered scope for riding horses along - these long open access ways often provided sweeping vistas of the landscape and also of the country house, a relatively easy way of demonstrating wealth.