Landscape Parks and the Form of Small Towns in Great Britain

The occurrence and significance of landscape parks as elements in British town plans is reported. Parks in which medieval baronial castles form the residence are used to exemplify a four-part sequence of change in parks in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the concomitant effects of such change upon adjacent towns. This chronology is then expanded to formulate a general organizational framework applicable to all park-affected towns which, in addition, provides a qualitative measure of comparison between examples.