KENWOOD HOUSE IN north London is a place I visit regularly, and have been doing so since the early 1960s. Its magnificent gardens were landscaped by Humphry Repton (1752-1818). Repton, who is considered successor to the great landscape designer Capability Brown was born in Suffolk.  He died in Essex.

While visiting the small town of Aylsham in Norfolk,  we came across the burial place of Humphry Repton. It is outside the southeast corner of the town’s large parish church.

Repton had many connections with Norfolk. His choice of Aylsham as his burial place was because his parents were buried in the church. We had stopped in Aylsham because it has an attractive market square. Until we visited the church we had no idea that the designer of the garden at Kenwood lies buried here.