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hedge line to be continued with a somewhat sharper curve towards 

 the new entrance. Both drives follow the contour of the land 

 with easy curves and gradients until they meet. From this point 

 the main drive leads directly to the forecourt entrance, and a second 

 drive leads to the stables and offices. Additional communication is 

 also made between the forecourt and stables, and besides that, from 

 the stables a back service road leads past the home farm, laundry, 

 etc., to the public road, which it enters at a point just beyond the 

 Shrewsbury entrance lodge. The ground north of the river was 

 somewhat bare of trees, so large masses of planting, besides single 

 trees, have been introduced for effect. A large belt was made 

 round the exposed sides of the new kitchen garden, to provide 

 shelter and to hide it from the mansion ; another continuous belt was 

 planted on raised ground to the north of the pleasure gardens, 

 to screen those from the north wind and from the drive. On the 

 southern side of the house a broad terrace walk was formed, supported 

 by a stone wall 6 ft. high, surmounted by a balustrade, with projecting 

 bastions, and recessed on its face to give space for seats available from 

 a walk formed on the lower level. This work was designed by Mr. 

 Aston Webb. At the eastern end, the terrace walk is narrowed in line 

 with the projecting wing of the house, and is continued to a diamond- 

 shaped garden, enclosed and divided up by yew hedges, with se- 

 cluded walks and spaces for seats, herbaceous borders, etc. From the 

 northern corner of it, a walk leads to the stables, and from the southern 

 corner another leads to the pleasure gardens. On the western side of 

 the house is a shorter and narrower terrace walk, beyond which is 

 a grassy slope, at the foot of which is a parterre containing flower 

 beds in geometrical design, and a fountain basin 60 ft. by 40 ft. 

 There are steps leading from the western end of the main terrace 

 walk to this lower ground, and also from a walk leading to it from 

 the forecourt. At the northern end of the western terrace is a turfed 



