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was enabled to carry out his contemplated additional 

 improvements, which he did to a very considerable 

 extent by purchasing as much of the adjoining land 

 as he was able to obtain, including Halnaker House, 

 park, and property, in 1765, for which he paid 

 £48,000. 



The Westhampnett house and land, comprising 

 1800 acres ; West Lavant, Raughmere, Stoke, Single- 

 ton, Charlton, East Dean, and Selhurst Park, were 

 added, the whole forming an estate about six miles 

 by four, with a park containing about 1214 acres, 

 which the Duke intended to surround by a wall, two- 

 thirds of which he completed. The wall which he 

 constructed was of about four miles in extent, en- 

 closing Halnaker Farm, and the preserves for game 

 were to form a portion of the enclosure of the park. 

 Therefore, to complete the circuit of the " park wall," 

 it only requu-ed connecting with the Halnaker Farm 

 wall from the Pilley Green Lodges, and from the 

 kitchen garden coppice ; whence to Pilley Green 

 Lodges, a distance of about three miles and a half, it 

 was completed, with the exception of the distance 

 from the Valdoe Lodges to the kennels, which is very 

 trifling. 



His Grace having succeeded in purchasing so much 

 land adjoining the original park and estate in such 

 directions as to render the mansion, or " Goodwood 

 House," as central as possible, devoted his time, 



