The original plans for the grounds were suggested by Richard Woods in 1764, however these proved too expensive and revised by George Ingham in 1773 before Capability Brown was brought in and undertook extensive earth moving and tree planting between 1775 and 1783.
Richard Woods (born 1941), New Zealand public servant and diplomat
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second daughter of Richard Woods, registrar of the Supreme Court of BC, and wife of the Reverend Robert Tomlinson in charge of the Anglican mission at Kincolith, near the mouth of the Nass.
The pleasure grounds and parkland around the hall were the work of landscape gardeners Richard Woods in the 18th century and Robert Marnock, the estate's head gardener, in the 1820s and 1830s.