ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an explanation of how Stephen Switzer, and his colleagues and contemporaries first made what he had called Ichnographia Rustica, or more familiarly Modern Gardening from the mid-1740s, land later landscape gardens. In the summer of 1728 there were major works in the middle part of the estate at Cirencester, works which addressed the improvement of the visual links by axis from Oakley Wood to Cirencester Church at Seven Rides. To do this, much of the wood in the Terrace Walk-Riskins element was sacrificed. There are lessons in the Cirencester design for the skilful management of large parts in an even larger scale entity; really how to make a pretty landskip of one's possessions. However, this next phase of Cirencester, the design, or, more correctly, the re-design of Lodge Park, lying just west of Seven Rides, gives a legitimate and significant change point as most likely the earliest essay in the forthcoming new style.
