Milton Abbey and it’s historic, Capability Brown, landscape setting, was the cradle of the English Kingdom and English language over a thousand years ago. The study began with the discovery of a dangerously leaking roof at Milton Abbey Church, but it has led to something much more important. The Abbey itself is surrounded by an internationally important example of Capability Brown’s landscape design – one of the finest sites which is set within a breaktaking 300 acres of landscape. 

Liz Lake Associates, in partnership with John Phibbs of the Debois Landscape Survey Group, were appointed as the Conservation Planners and Landscape Archiects to support the Stage 2 HLF application at Milton Abbey on behalf of the three main project partners; The Diocese of Salisbury, Milton Abbey School, and the Forestry Comission.