This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of England's greatest gardener Lancelot '“ or, as he is most widely known '“ '˜Capability' Brown. '˜Capability' stuck because he would ...

THREE Roman goddesses are back in their old haunts after a long-running conservation project at an East Yorkshire stately home ... built in 1788-89 for William Constable, still grows kumquats ...

Original correspondence between the art sales agent and William Constable, which is held at the East Riding of Yorkshire Council's archives in Beverley, suggests that the ship was lost at sea.

In the summer of 1771 William Constable had just returned to Burton Constable, his house in the East Riding of Yorkshire, after a lavish Grand Tour. He and his sister Winifred had spent £7000 and came ...

NESTLED in more than 300 acres of historic parkland designed by Lancelot '˜Capability' Brown lies East Yorkshire's best kept secret.

It is one of East Yorkshire's most unusual, and to the uninitiated, most mysterious, structures. It is, in fact, a mausoleum, built for the Constable family at the end of the 18th century.

Sir William Constable was buried in a vault in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey on 21st June 1655. But by Royal Warrant dated 9th September 1661 his remains were exhumed, together with several ...