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acter of a park, which is very considerable ; because it must 

 either serve to increase or diminish its importance. The lat- 

 ter is at present the case with respect to Tatton and Knuts- 

 ford. 



" The first essential of greatness in a place, is the appear- 

 ance of united and uninterrupted property ; and it is in vain 

 that this is studied within the pale, if it is too visibly contra- 

 dicted without it. It is not expected that a large manufac- 

 turing town like Knutsford, can be the entire property of one 

 individual ; but the proportion of interest belonging to the 

 adjoining family should impress the mind with a sense of its 

 influence. 



" There are various ways by which this effect is occasion- 

 ally produced, and I will mention some of them, viz. : the 

 (Church and churchyard may be decorated in a style that shall 

 •in .some degree correspond with that of the mansion. The 

 :marii.et-house, or other public- edifice — an obelisk, or even a 

 mere sione with distances, may be made an ornament to the 

 town an4 bear the arms of the family ; or the same arms 

 may be the sign of the principal inn of the place ; but there 

 are no means so effectual as that which presents itself at 

 Knutsford, of which I have given a hint in the slide of the 

 following sketch, for which see ' Repton's Landscape Gar- 

 dening, by J. C. Loudon,' page 93. 



■^^ By taking down a few miserable cottages and rebuilding 

 them as tenements, in a plain, uniform manner, the end of 

 the street will be open, to show the entrance of the park 

 through a simple, handsome arch. 



" The arch should be of stone color, but the tenements of 

 red brick, as according better with the other houses in the 

 town." 



The " few miserable cottages" are taken down, and the 

 street straightened and continued to the lodge in a right line ; 

 :a branch diverges from it on the left, about twenty rods be- 

 fore reaching the lodge, and continues along the boundary as 

 a public road ; and, instead of rebuilding tenements in red 

 brick in a plain uniform manner, the ground was planted, and 

 is now covered with a dense growth of trees, from forty to 

 ijifty feet in height. 



