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BRICKWALL, 



GARDENS 

 OLD-&NEW 



SUSSEX, . . . 



THE SEAT OF ... 



COL. EDWARD FREWEN. 



IT would be difficult to discover 

 in the South of England a 

 more attractive sixteenth or 



Cofyrifht. 



THE TERRACE AND GARDEN FRONT. 



early seventeenth century manor house than Brickwall, the 

 Sussex seat of the Frewen family. Here we have one of 

 those quaint country houses which bear the marks of 



many periods of history, sur- 

 rounded by gardens which 

 are very pleasant to linger in. 

 They have the attraction 

 which belongs to yew and 

 beech, to old bowling greens 

 and fish-ponds, to trees 

 quaintly shaped, to the stately 

 and the picturesque combined. 

 You enter through a gateway 

 which would not seem out of 

 1 lace even in the splendid 

 gardenage of Hampton 

 Court. There are then the 

 old brick walls touched with 

 green mosses, the time-worn 

 steps and gates, and the 

 trees which add much to the 

 surroundings. 



Northiam, the village in 

 which Brickwall is situated, 

 and indeed the entire district 

 which lies between the 

 marshes of Romney and 

 Lydd, and the marshes (.f 

 Bodiam, seems to have long 

 evaded all modernising in- 

 fluences. The visitor discovers 

 in the heart of what remains 

 of the great Hurstmonceux 

 oak forests a house dating 

 from Tudor days, which 

 remained sequestered com- 

 pletely until, in this year of 

 grace, 1900, the screech and 

 rattle of the locomotive began 

 to be heard, and a railway 

 station was planted in Nor- 

 thiam, awakening the village, 

 as if reluctant, from the sleep 

 of the centuries. The iron 

 horse of the Rother Valley 

 Railway has, indeed, invadeJ 

 a quiet corner of Arcadia. 

 Upon the village green which 

 slopes down from the church 

 stands a glorious old moribund 

 o.ik, which is over 24ft. round 

 the trunk at a height of jft. 

 from the ground. Queen 

 Elizabeth, who had been 

 staying with Sir Henry Gulde- 

 forde at Beiienden, lunched 



"Country T.ift" 



