The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Wrest Park

Silsoe (Settlement), Bedfordshire (County [UK]), England


View Larger MapDescription of institution: In 1736 Horace Walpole visited Wrest on a progress through Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire. He noted monuments in the garden in memory of the Duke of Kent’s children who all predeceased him, as well as a monument to Kent himself, at that time still alive. URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrest_Park