242 EVERSLEY GARDENS 



carpeted beneath with the pink and madder 

 brown of deep Heather. 



Many are the avenues at Bramshill. A seven- 

 fold one of Oaks leads out of the park on the 

 north beyond the lake. And from the west 

 front, a double avenue of gigantic Elms leads 

 down the rapid slope to the Broadwater that 

 gleams silver beneath the bridge, and up again 

 to the limits of the park and the heather-clad 

 moorland of Hazely Heath a mile away. Up 

 this avenue, in the early days of Bramshill 

 House, the deer were driven to be killed at 

 the ladies' feet below the parapet between two 

 pepper-box towers, which stand sentinel at the 

 end of the low brick walls enclosing the great 

 fore-court of smooth green turf and golden 

 gravel, which lies in front of the main entrance. 

 A noble view is that from the house, as the 

 eye ranges south and west over the rich and 

 varied masses of trees to the far horizon, from 

 the Beacon Hill and Caesar's Camp above 

 Aldershot, to the distant blue line of the 

 chalk downs from Basingstoke to Highclere 

 and Kingsclere over Newbury. While from 

 the east front the confines of Windsor Forest 



