The Palladian Bridge

“Ahahs” or “ ha-has” came to play an important part in the English landscape garden in preserving the continuity between the garden and the adjacent landscape. The ha-ha was used in Stowe in Buckinghamshire, which was one of the first English landscape garden. It was laid out around 1730, and it had a major influence on the future development of the new type.

Stowe had been owned by the Temple family since 1593 and was developed by Richard Temple, First Viscount of Cobham, between 1715 and 1726. The leading garden architect was Charles Bridgman, a key figure in the early development of the English landscape garden.