Publisher's Synopsis
This is one of a series designed to help teachers planning a site visit. Historical background is combined with a variety of possible study approaches, documentary sources and photocopiable activity sheets for classroom and on-site work, together with practical information about the site.;Focusing on the now-ruined 18th-century house near Wroxall on the Isle of Wight, this book attemps to reconstruct life there when it was first built. There is a trail along public footpaths to look for the remains of Capability Brown's landscape gardens, and another activity based on trees.
