Richard Jago
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Richard Jago was an English clergyman poet and minor landscape gardener from Warwickshire. Although his writing was not highly regarded by contemporaries, some of it was sufficiently novel to have several imitators.
Edge Hill, showing distinctive mediaeval ridge and furrow systems
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.
The view from the ruined Halesowen Priory towards The Leasowes (on the crest of the hill on the right).