EXAMPLES OF GARDEN DESIGN. 



A HILLSIDE GARDEN. 



Wood Hall, Cockermouth, which we have taken as a typical example of a hillside 

 garden, is situated on one of the most romantic spots in Great Britain. Its beauty is 

 not, however, of that haphazard order which one usually associates with the word pic- 

 turesque. The view from the South front is fine and spacious, with a disposition of 

 watered vale and rolling woodland, of deep declivities, and a background of Lakeland 

 mountains, all rising from rich flat meadows and broken by the sinuous lines and silver 

 streaks of the river Derwent ; whilst away to the West are the romantic ruins of Cocker- 

 mouth Castle. No wonder that Turner loved the view from Wood Hall, and selected 

 it as the subject of one of his great pictures ; the prospects suggest the " Grand Man- 

 ner " loved by the doyens of English Landscape Painters. 



A Hillside 

 Garden. 



FIG. 428. SUNDIAL BASTION AND PERGOLA, WOOD HALL, COCKERMOUTH. 



Wood Hall is one of those domains which, as domains, have existed almost from 

 time immemorial, but unfortunately, as in so many other instances, that reverence for the 

 antique which is so universal in those who love a garden has little beyond tradition and 

 history to feed upon, as the last of the ancient monastic buildings disappeared long ago. 



It is a far cry from the time when Waltheof, the first Lord of Allerdale, gave Wood 

 Hall, together with other property, to the Priory of Guisborough, and since then, on 

 the dissolution of the monasteries, Henry VIII. sold it to Henry Tolson, Gent., the 

 ancestor of a line which held it for many years, until it fell into the hands of the 

 Fisher family, who subsequently sold it to the present proprietor, Edward T. Tyson, 

 Esq., J.P. 



The present mansion was commenced during the Fisher occupancy, and after having 

 been added to and altered more than once, was converted into the existing commodious 



