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PARHAM PARK, 

 SUSSEX . . . 



THE SEAT OF 



LORD ZOUCHE OF HARYNGWORTH. 



SUSSbX is one of those English counties which have 

 a wondrous deal of the national and personal lile 

 of our countrymen. There is scarcely a Sussex 

 village that is not in some measure a landmark of 

 history, and if, sometimes, the solitary hamlet seems 

 cut off from the busy hum of the urgent world, living amid the 

 (olds of the hills an uneventful life of its own, be sure that 

 in its annals there have been stirring events or curious 

 happenings to record. No part of England bears witness 

 to greater changes in the physical aspect of the land than 

 this southern fringe. Richly wooded still, much of it was 

 possessed long ago by the great area of forest and waste which 

 bow the name of the Andred's Weald, and when /lla and 

 Cissa "beset Anderida, and slew all that were therein, nor 

 was there afterwards one Briton left," the warlike chieftains 



saw a country OAVU-J mile after mile beyond with dense 

 thickets that have now given place to the wide nu-adou , the 

 cornfield, and the fruitful i.rch.ird. It is .1 > -unity run in 

 passages of sylvan beauty, and dignified in many place*, as 

 at Parham Park, by the possession of old aiuvstral trees of 

 mighty growth and splendid mould. The open heights of the 

 Downs, with their subtle effect of atmosphere and di-t.nuv, 

 their changing hues and individual character, their romantic 

 prospects of land and sea, have a fascination which none who 

 know them can resist. Nestling below tlu-i s-mthern slopes, 

 and sheltered from the chilling blasts, are many quaint and 

 picturesque villages, and near them not a few f the houses 

 of the great, who have chosen this favoured region as (un- 

 desirable to dwell in. 



Parham Park, the stately seat of Lord Zouche, is 



THE GAIb AND THE VISTA. 



