THE SOUTH DEVON 



MONTHLY MUSEUM 



PLYMOUTH, MAY 1. 1836. 



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LOCAL SKETCHES— No. III. 

 KILWORTHY. 



" Sir John Fitz pursued his way to Kil worthy, the residence 

 of the Glanvilles, situated in the pleasant neighbourhood of 

 Tavistock.'' 



Fitz of Fitzford. 



^'KiLwoRTHY is a gentle house/' asserts honest 

 John Prince, and the saying may be repeated even 

 in our more fastidious days. Kilwprthy is a proper 

 and genteel residence for all who love country quar- 

 ters. Encircled by groups of noble forest trees, — 

 here a Hne of chesnuts lifting their glowing blos- 

 soms in the air, spring after spring with never- 

 tiring beauty ; there a few stately yews waving 

 their sombre boughs in triumph over the storms of 

 a hundred winters ; in that mossy dell the gnarled 

 roots of some towering oaks fixed with strength of 

 adamant in their kindred soil ; and at a distance a 

 grove of elms, affording shelter to a colony of ever 

 clamoious rooks ; all around speaks to the eye, if 

 not to the ear, of the venerable antiquity of the place. 

 Then the well-shaven green, the rising terraces, the 

 prim garden, the ancient summer-houses with 

 carved heads frowning on " each dainty dame who 

 whilome took pleasaunce therein,'' present beauties to 

 all who are not wholly prejudiced in favour of the sad 

 innovations of the nineteenth century. I confess 



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