Melton Constable Hall

The park was enclosed in 1290. A new manor house followed in the later seventeenth century, and by 1707 formal gardens sent avenues out into the surrounding land. A more open layout began in the 1730s. Sir Edward Astley hired Lancelot Brown in 1764 for further improvements, carried out through the rest of that decade.

The 180-hectare landscape includes a temple, follies and plantings of rhododendrons, firs and oaks. In the early nineteenth century the hall gained an eastern range and the estate acquired east and west lodges. An oval arboretum was established around the kitchen garden, stables and offices. The landscape later came into divided use, after these several phases of estate building and planting.