Bluebell Sunday

Continuing the exploration of my new home city, Sunday saw us walking around Stanmer Park and Estate, an excellent example of an 18th Century designed landscape within the South Downs National Park. One of the park’s highlights is Stanmer Village, an 18th Century working village, with the Grade I listed Stanmer House, constructed by the French architect Nicholas Dubois in 1722 in a Palladian style, as its main focal point.

Covering some 464 acres, for just 2 weeks of the year the woods above Stanmer House are covered in an expansive carpet of bluebells.