Mamhead Park South · Devon
A historic estate, quietly returning to itself.
Set on the southern edge of Exeter, with the sea on the horizon and a Capability Brown landscape at its heart.
The place
A private estate
Mamhead Park South sits above the Exe estuary, a historic Devon estate laid out in the 1770s by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
Cascade water gardens fall through ancient specimen trees to a secluded lake, held by a horseshoe of oak and beech. Beyond, one hundred acres of rewilded wildland flow south to the sea. In between, forty contemporary sculptures rest quietly in the landscape.
It is a private home and a working rewilding project. Access is limited, deliberate, and by invitation only.
The Wildland · 100 acres to the sea
“A herd of black fallow deer, sea air off the Channel, and the long, slow return of the land to itself.”
The Gardens
A Capability Brown landscape of cascade pools, rare specimen trees, wildflower banks and an inland lake — quietly returned to its wilder self.
The Wildland
A hundred acres of small-scale rewilding, home to black fallow deer, badger-faces, birds of prey, butterflies and rare wild plants.
The View
From the top of the ridge, the estate opens south to the English Channel — a long, uninterrupted line of sea, sky and moving weather.
