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North Sea, and a wide outlook over a far landscape is opened 

 from the windows and terraces. The mansion is of late 

 Jacobean character, belonging to that period or aspect of the 

 style if the word style can be used where the features are so 

 distinct in which the classic and stately had replaced the 

 broken and picturesque. Red brick always falls well into 

 a garden picture, and Clifton Hall is no exception to the 

 rule. 



The location is ancient, for Clifton is mentioned in 

 Domesday, and even in the Conqueror's days there was a 

 house on the site. The manors of Clifton, Wilford, and 

 Barton have been held by the family of Clifton ever since 

 those times, though the estate has now passed through the 



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female line to the present owner, Lieutenant-Colonel Hervey 

 Juckes Lloyd Bruce, late Coldstream Guards, whose mother 

 was the daughter of Sir J. G. Juckes-Clifton, M.P., ninth 

 Baronet, and sister and heiress of Sir Robert Clifton, the last 

 Baronet of the line. She married the Right Hon. Sir Henry 

 Hervey Bruce of Downhill, B.irt., and died in 1891. The 

 permanence of English institutions is but the reflection of our 

 social life, for, great as have been the changes in the descent 

 of property, it is still possible to find many examples like that 

 of the long-lineaged family at Clifton Hall in the territorial 

 records of the land. 



The chief features of the grounds at this imposing seat 

 are those fine grass terraces we have alluded to, of which 



there are five, one above the 

 other, adorned by rows of 

 magnificent old yew trees, as 

 well as by some splendid 

 single specimens. These 

 terraces add distinction to the 

 place, and are amongst the 

 most notable examples of 

 their kind in England. The 

 gnarled old yew trees, which 

 give such strong character to 

 many gardens, enhance the 

 quaintness of the picture here. 

 Terraces are of many kinds, 

 sometimes paved, sometimes 

 laid with gravel, sometimes 

 with a balustraded supporting 

 wall, and sometimes, as at 

 Clifton, covered with turf, 

 very beautiful indeed being 

 these gentle lengths of rich 

 verdure, overlooking the great 

 landscape below. 



Many notable gardens in 

 England possess a succession 

 ol terraces. Tho:;e at Chats- 

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part destroyed in the changes 



