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BELTON, . . . 



GRANTHAM, . . 



THE SEAT OF . . . 



EARL BROWNLOW. 



GARDENS 

 OLD-&NEW 



'HERE is a popular notion 

 abroad that Lincolnshire is 

 a flat, u n p i c t u r e s q LI e 

 county, to which the tourist does seldom resort. It is as 

 level, you are apt to think, as your hand, a shire of 

 broad acres, much of it ancient waste, "stubb'd," perhaps, 

 like " Thurnaby waaste " by the old "Northern Farmer," 

 and no longer " nowt at all but bracken and fuzz," 

 but very flat and unattractive all the same. This is a 

 mistake. Putting aside the real beauties of fen country, 

 and the charm that belongs to great over-arching skies, 

 there is abundance of picturesque scenery in Lincolnshire, 

 and in some parts the land is magnificently wooded, 



and often well 

 watered. This is 

 the case in the neighbourhood 

 of Belton. Passing by the railway through 

 Grantham, with its tall spire and cattle-pens, you 

 do not suspect that a romantic pile like Belvoir is on one hand, 

 and a. beautiful seat like Belton on the other. Lord Brownlow 

 has another fine seat at Ashridge, in Hertfordshire, to which 

 some of his art treasures have been removed, but Belton 

 House is very splendid, its park most beautiful, and its gardens 

 superb. It is simply delightful to find the sweet village of 

 Belton on the verge of the park, a place quite typical of the 

 charms of rural life. How deeply Lord and Lady Brownlow 

 are interested in home arts and village industries all the world 

 knows, and Belton has profited very greatly by their love for 



CofyrigU. 



FROM THE NORTH STEPS. 



'Country Lift.' 



