It begins stunningly, with spangled peacock-green and midnight-blue walls the backcloth for the icons that defined mid-19th century concepts of beauty.
The backcloths were used to suggest locale without photographic representationalism; they imply air, water, sea, hills, a city etc., but never actually show anything specific.
The course is a mixture of heath and woodland, the tree-lined fairways have a particularly splendid backcloth of colour with attractive areas of heather and many species of wild flowers.
