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in the then fashionable Gardenesque style. He became the first curator of the Gardens in 1836. A major restoration of the Gardens, completed in summer 2008, reinstated elements of Marnock's design.
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between 1829 and 1833. He was appointed by the Sheffield Botanical and Horticultural Society in 1833 to design and lay out the
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which has recently undergone a £2.8 million transformation to restore it to the original Marnock design. The park is now on
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Another of his achievements was the landscaping in the 1870s of the grounds of
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money to restore Marnock's designs to their original grandeur.
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and was appointed as the gardens' curator of the advice of
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In 1839, Marnock moved on to lay out the gardens of the
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Gardenesque
Sheffield
Bretton Hall
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Wakefield
Botanical Gardens
Botanical Gardens
Royal Botanic Society of London
Regent's Park
John Claudius Loudon
Thornbury
Weston Park
Louis Huth
Possingworth Park
Avenue House
Finchley
Henry Charles Stephens
National Lottery
Dunorlan Park
Royal Tunbridge Wells
English Heritage
National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens
Rusthall
author abbreviation
citing
botanical name
Marnock, Robert
Dictionary of National Biography
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