W-LTON. 



'in li.u! 



richly planted, and 

 the syKan K.I 

 a- l.ntJ- 



S P" 



tlu- touch <>l the later 



hand. 



Thus it will bj 

 th.it tlu- develop- 

 ment i.t this estate 



! through 

 the modification 



A nets, 



T h . client 



character of the 

 house, the churmin : 

 pic t u r e s q u e n e ss 



"ie courtyard. 

 the lavish beaut, 

 the iron grilles and 



-. the elm avenue 

 with its delightful 



i. the \.irmus 

 t t h e 



pleasure grounds, the 

 \enerahle trees, all bespeak the loving care and 

 criminating t.i^; ,,t ^ener-itmns. Thus are the charms and 

 Jllurem.-nts ,,f country life preserved in Hngl.ind. At B-lton we 



Hit t'l 



the n r I d t ii 

 the (.'illege i.\ u.i.l 

 Mliglr, t'i the i.imp. 

 the leglsl.Huie. ->t 



the har h.is .umni 



plislled ll s t.lsU. .111,1 



Ins tenantry foil. in- 

 him to the ^r 

 All this you teel at 

 lielton. K-i.nise in 

 that pretty vi. 

 churth. with its 

 l:atl\ l:nglish t 

 and its m .1 s s i v < 



nil arv.i.le. there 

 inoiuilllellts of 

 many lords <>f 

 lielton. including 

 of Sir John 





THE CONSERVATORY. 





Tyrconnel, of Sir 

 John Ciist. the 

 Speaker, of the first 

 Lord Brownlyw by 

 \\ Mm. u "it, and of 

 ^' 'letti and Onov.t, 



the first H.irl and his Countess by 

 with others. 



The gardens, which are am -n^ the most impirtant in 



THE NORIH FRONT. 





are, indeed, in tin; heart of the land. The venerable tower 

 M the village church rises near the house, and it is Kit .1 

 pleasant walk acns the ^arJen from the dwelling of the lords 

 of Belton to the place where their ashes lie. 



Here is the rounding of the nobleman's and country 

 gentleman's life. The child prattling in the garden path's 



Lincolnshire, resemble little, as we have said, the formal pleasure 

 gmunds of hutch trimness which Sir John Brownlow. 

 nil Tyrconnel, improved and partly formed about his 

 house early in the last century, though a certain stately 

 formality rightly belongs to them. > pt that 



splendid Italian garden is as a jewel set in its p 



