John Scott of Amwell
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John Scott, known as Scott of Amwell, was an English landscape gardener and writer on social matters. He was also the first notable Quaker poet, although in modern times he is remembered for only one
A portrait engraving for the title page of Scott's Poetical Works, 1782
A contemporary engraving of Scott's Grotto at Amwell
Scott's Grotto
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Scott's Grotto in Ware, Hertfordshire, is a Grade I listed building and with six chambers the most extensive shell grotto in the United Kingdom. "It is, although on a small scale, far more complex tha
John Scott of Amwell
…the improvement of the grounds from 1760, modelling them on those of William Shenstone at the Leasowes, which he visited. Its principal feature was a grotto consisting of six subterranean rooms whose surfaces were covered in flints, shells and minerals, His poem "The Garden" goes on to reject the formal…
The porch of Scott's Grotto today.