BOWOOD House and Gardens are to pay a special tribute to the ‘Father of Landscape’ with a series of Capability Brown 300th birthday celebrations in 2016.

The 2000-acre Grade One listed parkland was mapped out by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and a special 2016 exhibition in Bowood’s Orangery will reveal how the vision for one of England’s best landscapes took shape.

The Terrestrial Delights exhibition will chart the development of the parkland and lead the estate’s own tribute during the nationwide Capability Brown Festival.

Bowood House and Gardens has also scheduled a series of specially-themed, guided garden tours around the parkland.

Having gained the Historic Houses Association/Christie's Garden of the Year award in 2014, Bowood is the most recent Capability Brown parkland to have received this prestigious accolade.

Bowood's archivist, Jo Johnston, who is curating the 'Terrestrial Delights' exhibition, said that when Capability Brown undertook the project at Bowood he was at the height of his fame.

"By this time, he had already developed his defining style,” she said.

“His was a new and fashionable approach to the layout of a grand English garden that was highly, and increasingly, sought after by large estate owners.

“Abandoning the previous taste for very formal gardens, Capability Brown took the more naturalistic compositions pioneered by William Kent from 1719 to another level altogether.”

There will also be a series of monthly special ‘Capability Brown’ themed, guided garden tours scheduled from April to October 2016 tracing out his designs for Bowood.

After Bowood House and Gardens' annual winter closure, next season’s tours will be introduced as a tercentenary tribute and last 90 minutes. They are priced at £32.00 per person and also includes general admission to the House and Gardens.

Lord Lansdowne said: "Now that Capability Brown’s and my forefathers’ young trees have achieved maturity, Bowood’s visitors can appreciate today what could only have been imagined in the mid-18th century.”

Bowood House & Gardens are currently closed for the winter but are scheduled to re-open on Friday, March 25.