Studley Royal Water Garden
park, North Yorkshire, England
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The Studley Royal Water Garden is a park located in North Yorkshire, England, southwest of Ripon. It is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site and contains the ruins of Fountains Abbey. This garden is an example of the English garden style, which emerged in 18th-century England as a reaction against formal, architectural gardens. The English garden style emphasizes natural landscapes with expanses of grass, clumps of trees, and irregularly shaped bodies of water, aiming to appear indistinguishable from nature.12
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