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a handsome old lead pump, rather a curiosity, 

 with Lord de la Warr's initials and coronet 

 thereon, and the shell of the keeper's cottage 

 hard by is reputed to be the remains of the 

 old laundry attached to the mansion since 

 added to. 



The last occupant of the house was Lady 

 Londonderry, who continued to reside there after 

 the death of her husband, the master keeper of 

 the walk, in 1821, until her own death in 1833. 

 The house was then pulled down, a great sale 

 of all the materials was held in 1833, and all 

 that remained was a keeper's cottage and the 

 pump! 



A large master keeper's lodge stood in Rhine - 

 field Walk. In 1628 we find an authority from 

 the Earl of Holland to certain persons, and " to 

 Gabriell Lappe, gent, his Majes tie's Woodward 

 for County Southampton, for 30 to be raised, 

 in addition to 116 already expended in re- 

 pairing and building of the great lodge called 

 Rynefield, and the other outhouses thereto be- 

 longing, in the Baylwick of Batramsley within 

 the New Forest." 



In 1789 this lodge was occupied by (Col.) 

 Nathaniel Heywood, master keeper of Rhine- 

 field and Wilverley Walks, and deputy to the 

 Lord Warden of New Forest. From his 



