Welcome to the Temple Newsam Fly–Through. To illustrate the shape of the landscape in the 17th century, we have had produced a digitised 3D fly–through based on Jan Kip's engraving of the Estate, which itself was made from a 1699 drawing by Leonard Knyff. Here you can take a short tour around the outside of the House and over the surrounding landscape.

History
When wealthy businessman Sir Arthur Ingram bought the estate in 1622, he and his heirs created fashionable formal gardens with straight avenues radiating out into the surrounding deer park. The gardens were extensive and opulent with three separate banqueting houses, a bowling green, carved stone animals, terraces and grassed walks, as well as extensive orchards and kitchen gardens. These features and others are seen in a drawing made by Jan Kip in 1699 which is generally regarded to be a reasonably accurate picture of the estate at the time.

Most of these features were lost during the re–landscaping of the 18th century but the recent simplification of the West Garden reflects its past as a bowling green and many elements of the South Garden created in the 1970s were based on the designs seen in Kip.

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