Coplestone Warre Bampfylde
Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720–1791) was a British landowner, garden designer and artist. Life Bampfylde was the only son of John Bampfylde by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Warre, 1st Baronet, and was educated at Blundell's School and Winchester. In 1750, following the death of his father, he inherited Hestercombe House in Somerset (originally the property of his mother's family), where he designed and laid out the gardens. They are now listed Grade 1 on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. In November 1758, during the Seven Years' War, he was commissioned as Major of the 1st Somerset Militia, which was embodied for fulltime service in home defence on 3 July 1759. The regiment served in the Plymouth defences, and Bampfylde was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1761 on the resignation of Lord North. The regiment was disembodied on 31 December 1762 as the war drew to a close. He was appoint ...
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Geograph 3146311 Hestercombe House
Geograph Britain and Ireland is a Web application, web-based project, begun in March 2005, to create a freely accessible archive of geographically located photographs of Great Britain and Ireland. Photographs in the Geograph collection are chosen to illustrate significant or typical features of each 1 km × 1 km (100 Hectare, ha) grid square in the Ordnance Survey National Grid and the Irish national grid reference system.Hawgood D. Geograph or supplemental (June 2007)
(accessed 13 March 2008) There are 332,216 such grid squares containing at least some land or permanent structure (at low tide), of which 280,037 have Geographs.
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