Humphrey Repton was the landscape architect who succeeded Capability Brown. Repton worked on some of the leading country houses of his day, including our own Hill Hall, which he visited and illustrated in 1792. The talk will focus in detail on the country park landscape of Repton’s day - and how much of it survives - but will also look back to Sir Thomas Smyth’s Elizabethan garden, and forward to the Victorian and Edwardian landscapes. The garden had its second heyday in the 1920s, when Lady Hudson and the architect Philip Tilden created a series of ‘secret gardens’, three of which survive.