Editing Humphry Repton (section)

===Death and legacy===
[[File:Humphry Repton grave.jpg|thumb|Repton's grave in [[Aylsham]], Norfolk]]
On 29 November 1811<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/15798/humphrey-repton-filled-the-boots-of-capability-brown|title=Humphrey Repton filled the boots of Capability Brown|date=29 September 1973|publisher=Look and Learn|access-date=2019-01-11}}</ref> Repton suffered a serious carriage accident which often left him needing to use a wheelchair for mobility. He died at age 65 in 1818 and is buried in the graveyard of the [[Church of St Michael, Aylsham]], [[Norfolk]].<ref>[https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/memorial-lecture-on-humphry-repton-in-aylsham-1-6018470 "Second Humphry Repton memorial lecture at Aylsham church"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929045702/https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/memorial-lecture-on-humphry-repton-in-aylsham-1-6018470 |date=29 September 2020 }}, ''North Norfolk News'', 26 April 2019.</ref>

Three roads close to the vicinity of his cottage at Hare Street (now renamed Main Road) in the [[Gidea Park]] area of [[Romford]] were named after him; Repton Avenue, Repton Gardens and Repton Drive, respectively. A plaque was unveiled on the former site of his cottage on 19 April 1969. The cottage was long since demolished and a branch of [[Lloyds TSB]] is situated on the junction of Hare Street and Balgores Lane.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Georgina Green |title=Humphry Repton's links to Ilford, Wanstead and Woodford |url=https://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/heritage/humphry-repton-s-links-to-ilford-wanstead-and-woodford-1-5440860 |website=Ilford Recorder |access-date=7 June 2020 |date=19 March 2018 |archive-date=7 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607121827/https://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/heritage/humphry-repton-s-links-to-ilford-wanstead-and-woodford-1-5440860 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In addition to his innovations in landscape architecture, Repton's 1803 quote "the thorn is the mother of the oak" has become a tenet of [[Rewilding (conservation biology)|rewilding]], where thorny plants are used to protect young native saplings from [[Browsing (herbivory)|overbrowsing]] by rabbits and deer.<ref>{{cite book |title=Trees, Forested Landscapes and Grazing Animals: A European Perspective on Woodlands and Grazed Treescapes |author=Ian D. Rotherham |year=2013 |publisher= Routledge|isbn=9781136242212 |page=383 }}</ref>