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The Wellow Brook runs through the gardens to the North of Ston Easton Park.
In 1793
Henry Hippisley Coxe commissioned
Humphry Repton to prepare a plan for
transforming
the farmland surrounding
the mansion into a landscape park. Not all of Repton's proposals
were carried
out, but his plan to turn the "dark silent pool" behind the house into
a wider
river
broken up by cascades did become reality, creating "something so far
more cheerful
and interesting in the busy motion of a running stream". Lady Elizabeth
Hippisley,
Henry's
widow, further developed the grounds in about 1814. In the late 20th
century Peter Smedley
worked with Penelope Hobhouse to replan and repair the neglected garden.