What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: William Shenstone 1714-1763 Poet and Landscape Gardener Resided here at the Leasowes where he created his Ferme Ornee Landscape Recorded plaque organisation: Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.
William Shenstone was an 18th-century poet and pioneering landscape gardener who significantly influenced the development of the English picturesque style through his creation of the Ferne Ornee at The Leasowes.
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Places near here
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The Leasowes (halesowen Golf Club)Listed building · 6 yd
The LeasowesRegistered park or garden · 105 yd
Mucklow HillMountain / peak · 884 yd
Halesowen Abbey and associated water control featuresScheduled monument · 1300 yd,_15_Furnace_Hill,_Halesowen_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3985386.jpg?width=1280)
Furnace HillMountain / peak · 1492 yd
Halesowen Architectural Heritage TrailWalking route · 1514 yd
Woodgate Valley Country Park Visitor CentreVisitor information · 1.1 mi
River Tame Source SpringSpring · 1.3 mi
Uffmoor WoodForest · 2.5 mi
Reddal HillWood · 2.5 mi
Mary Macarthur MonumentMonument or public art · 2.6 mi
St Kenelm's WellSpring · 2.9 miOther information
Photo: Tony Hisgett · CC BY 2.0