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Dodington Park is a country house and estate in Dodington, Gloucestershire, England
England

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The Codrington family acquired the estate in the late 16th century, when there was a large gables Elizabethan house and adjoining church. In the 18th century the family became wealthy from sugar plantations in the West Indies and undertook work on the estate. The grounds of 240 ha were laid out around 1764 by Capability Brown
Capability Brown

Lancelot Brown , more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an England landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener"....
 and were modified in 1793 by William Emes
William Emes

William Emes was an English landscape gardener....
 and John Webb. The current house was built by James Wyatt
James Wyatt

James Wyatt Royal Academy , was an England architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the Neoclassicism style, who far outdid Adam in his work in the Gothic revival....
 between 1798 and 1813 for Christopher Codrington.






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Dodington Park is a country house and estate in Dodington, Gloucestershire, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
.

The Codrington family acquired the estate in the late 16th century, when there was a large gables Elizabethan house and adjoining church. In the 18th century the family became wealthy from sugar plantations in the West Indies and undertook work on the estate. The grounds of 240 ha were laid out around 1764 by Capability Brown
Capability Brown

Lancelot Brown , more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an England landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener"....
 and were modified in 1793 by William Emes
William Emes

William Emes was an English landscape gardener....
 and John Webb. The current house was built by James Wyatt
James Wyatt

James Wyatt Royal Academy , was an England architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the Neoclassicism style, who far outdid Adam in his work in the Gothic revival....
 between 1798 and 1813 for Christopher Codrington. The church was also rebuilt by Wyatt. A formal garden was added in 1930.

The estate remained in the Codrington family until 1980. It was bought in 2003 by James Dyson
James Dyson

Sir James Dyson , is an England industrial designer.He is best known as the inventor of the DC01 bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation....
.

The River Frome
River Frome, Bristol

The River Frome is a river in South Gloucestershire. It is not to be confused with Frome_#Rivers in the south west of England with the same name....
 rises in the grounds.