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Some wreftle on the plains, and fome in play, 



And games heroic, pafs the hours away. 



Thofe raife the long divine, and thefe advance 



In meafur'd fteps to form the folcnm dance. Pitt. 



The prefent owner of this ftation is Mr. l^Hiam Lowes ; his 

 houfe behind it, within the manour of Henjljaw, belonging to 

 Sir Edward Blacket, of Weft Mc.tfcn, Bart. 



On the other Tide of the 7}'y by the confluence of the brook 

 Alleninto that river, is 



Ridley-Hall, antiently belonging to the Ridley s of Wiilim -tefivicke, 

 and in later times to the antient family of Lowes ; a local name, 

 from the neighbouring forefl of Loives ; now the feat and Lord- 

 ihip of William Lowes, of Newcnjlle, Efq; whofe anceftor, Robert 

 Lowes, was one of the gentlemen who had the dircfLc-: of the 

 watch at Thorngrafton, 6 K. Edward VI (r). The fcat-hoiiic is on 

 a rifmg ground, built by its prefent owner ; the (ourh-ironr of 

 brick; a pleafant garden before it; a windi r r terrac 

 from it fouthward above the bunks ,> f ' ' nu/iug rrout- 



ftreams, under a nankin 7 v -aid near its termination a pre- 

 cipice of broken rocks, called, The R^ruen-'^r^ T. f i- o;n its being 

 the refortof thofe birds; yews and hoi PCS growing in the clefts 

 and crevices; one yew affording an agreeable made and verdure; 

 at a fmn.ll diftance the woody banks of Kingswood, which clofe 

 this romantic fcene. 



From a hillock on the weft fide of the houfe, the chapel of 

 Bdtingham, the caftle of Willmotefwicke, the new bridge over the. 



(r) Bifhop Nicho/fon's Border-Laws, p. 240. 



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