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new entrance, sketched by me, to the property of Sir Robert 

 Gerard, Bart., at Garswood. The point of entrance here is 

 particularly happy, being at the junction of four roads, — a 

 circumstance that is often of itself sufficient to determine 

 the position of some kind of inlet to a place. Being intended 



Imposing Recessed Entrance. 



chiefly for the St. Helens road, however, it is called the St. 

 Helens entrance to distinguish it from two other approaches 

 to the hall. And as the property around it belongs to Sir 

 Robert Gerard the corners between the contiguous roads 

 are intended to be cut off from the fields behind them, and 

 planted in the manner shown, being kept in grass, and separ- 



