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HENBURY MANOR 

 GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



GARDENS 

 OLD'&NEW 



GEN. SAMPSON-WAY. 



charming Hcnbury. 

 places ; we have 

 for are they not a 

 by their ancient 



HE garden -lover will 

 observe a very remark- 

 able feature delineated 

 in these beautiful pictures of 

 We have seen yew hedges in many 

 insisted upon their value very often, 

 glory of the English garden, appealing, 

 aspect and curious associ.i lions, to 

 our sentiments, and wholly satisfactory and pleasing, as a 

 relief and contrast either to gay masses of flowers or to 

 green expanses of turf? "The yew wood, the true wood," 

 is the wood of Old England, the brother-ancient of the 

 hoary oak, companion of the mighty beech, noble where 

 it stands unfettered, and beautiful where it assumes its 

 place in the garden world. 



In few places in England are there arches of yew 

 like those at Henbury Manoi which, however, have much 

 in common with the arches in the famous yew walk at 

 Cleeve Prior. Their unu>ual character and the over- 

 hanging mushroom-like heads of the yews themselves 

 have a quaint and indefinable charm. They grace a very 



beautiful house nnd a charming 

 region of the West Country, 

 for Henbury is a near neigh- 

 bour of Bristol, being, in fact, 

 only five miles away. There are few who do not know 

 something of the peaceful beauties of that favoured 

 land. The high downs thereabout afford magnificent 

 prospects, extending over the surrounding country and 

 across the Severn to the mountains of Wales, while the 

 valleys are embowered in woodland of surpassing loveli- 

 ness, and the many fine houses and seats are rich in 

 their attractions of evergreens, flowering banks, and 

 wide lawns. King's Weston, one of Vanbrugh's best 

 designs, surrounded by a singularly beautiful garden, has 

 already been illustrated in these pages, and the view 

 from Weston Ridge, which is covered with the finest 

 turf, towards the Severn and the Avon, is of ravishing 

 beauty. 



Henbury Manor is its neighbour, and is a house of 

 character quite dist'nct. It was built in the memorable year of 

 Revolution, 1688, but has gone through various changes, and 



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THE UPPER LAWN AND THE CHURCH. 



'Country Life.' 



