BOOK I. 



GARDENS OF SURREY. 



1067 



made nearly through a hill, but a rock at the south end pre- 

 vented the design from being completed. 



Botley, near Chertsey ; Sir J. Mawbey. An elegant stone 

 mansion, in a park well stocked with timber, and adorned 

 with a fine piece of artificial water, with a bdth at one end 

 of it. 



Burrvood Park, near Walton ; Sir J. Frederick. An ele- 

 gant house, in a park of 300 acres, valued here because not in- 

 tersected by a single footpath. 



Bysshe Court, near Godstone; J. M. Ewart, Esq. Worthy 

 of notice on account of the kitchen-garden, which is surrounded 

 by a moat, the area enclosed being that on which the former 

 mansion stood. 



X Deepdene, near Dorking; T. Hope, Esq. A man of 

 great- taste in all the fine arts, and eminently so in architec- 

 ture and gardening. His essay on gardening, and work on 

 household furniture, are highly esteemed. This Italian villa 

 was built by the Duke of Norfolk, but improved and deco- 

 rated with sculptures and a Tuscan tower, by the present 

 proprietor. The grounds are not extensive, but. are highly 

 romantic, and intersected with walks in various directions, 

 which, with admirable liberality, are at all times open to the 

 public. 



Egham Park, near Egham; Parry, Esq. A neat 



house, in a well wooded park of sixty acres, lying on the south- 

 west side of Cooper's Hill ; a conservatory and colonnade added 

 to the house, and the kitchen-garden much improved by the 

 present proprietor. 



Ember Court, near Thames Ditton ; Colonel Taylor. A 

 stuccoed house, and a park of late years greatly enlarged and 

 improved. 



Grow Hill, near Camberwell ; the late J. C. Lettsom, M.D. 

 A plain mansion; the gardens laid out with great taste and 

 beauty, and rich in exotics. There are also various orna- 

 mental buildings, and the whole is in the highest state of 

 preservation. 



Kingsrvood Lodge, near Egham ; Flounder, Esq. A 



substantial stuccoed house ; the grounds modernised by us in 

 1805, for Gideon Bickerdyke, Esq. the proprietor at that 

 time. They are chiefly remarkable for their commanding 

 prospects, and as forming a part of Cooper's Hill, celebrated 

 by Denham. 



Monk's Grove, near Chertsey ; Lord Montford. Remarkable 

 only for its kitchen-garden, sunk in the side of St. Anne's Hill, 

 at a great expense. 



Morden Park, near Morden ; G. Ridge, Esq. A handsome 

 quadrangular house, on a rising ground, agreeably diversified 

 with extensive plantations of shrubs and flowers, and embel- 

 lished by two sheets of water. 



X Norbury Park, near Mickleham ; W. Locke, Esq. A 

 simple but grand mansion, in an elevated commanding 

 situation, " well fitted to reign over the domain in which it 

 is placed." The park is extensive, and the wood in judicious 

 masses branching away from the house in opposite directions. 

 It contains many walnut-trees, the nuts of which in some years 

 are said to fetch 600/., and in other seasons scarcely a bushel is 

 produced. 



X Pain's Hill, near Cobham ; Lord Carhampton. One of 

 the most beautiful and meritorious places in England. The 

 extent is 213 acres, great part taken from a barren heath ; but 

 the surface being naturally varied, and the river Mole border- 

 ing the estate, laid a foundation for every improvement. By 

 a simple contrivance the water was raised so as to supply 

 a large and beautifully varied lake, and the buildings and 

 woods were judiciously adapted to the grounds. A vineyard 

 was planted on the south side of a gravelly hill, from which 

 wines were made for several years. The woods were planted 

 so as of themselves to produce variety, by adopting the man- 

 ner of grouping the natural orders ; thus, in one part the 

 pine and fir tribes prevailed, in another aquatics, and so on. 

 This place was celeorated by Wheatley, Walpole, and other 

 writers, and much admired by the public, to whom it was open, 

 till it fell into the possession of the present proprietor. 



Petersham Lodge, near Kew ; Sir W. Manners. The house 

 a design of the Earl of Burlington ; the grounds spacious and 

 beautiful, and adjoining Richmond Park. 



Polesdon, near Leatherhead ; . The 



grounds remarkable for a fine terrace-walk 900 feet in length. 



Tlie Priory, near Ryegate ; Lord Somers. A modern house, 

 vith 76 acres of pleasure-grounds, very well laid out. 



Puttenham Priory, near Godalming; Admiral Cormick. 



X Richmond Hill, Richmond. Among the many fine 

 villas here, we may notice that of the Marquis of Queens- 

 bury, as affording an example of grounds on both sides of a 

 public road judiciously connected by a subterraneous com- 

 munication. 



Roehampton Grove, Roehampton ; W. Gosling, Esq. An 

 elegant modern structure, by Wyatt, with a highly polished 

 lawn and shrubberies, and a fine piece of water, supplied by 

 pipes from a conduit on Putney Common. There are above a 

 dozen other structures equally deserving attention at Roe- 

 hampton. 



That of Lord Viscount Fitzwilliam was the house of Sir 

 Matthew Decker, maternal grandfather of his Lordship, a 

 wealthy Dutch merchant, who first brought pine-apples to 

 perfection at this place. Mackay , in his tour through England, 

 about the year 1724, says, that there was in the garden the 

 longest, the largest, and the highest hedge of holly that he 

 ever saw. In the house was the picture of a pine-apple gather- 

 ed there in 1720, on account of a visit of George I. for whose 

 reception Sir Matthew built a room on purpose. He died in 

 1749. The hedge no longer exists. Lord Fitzwilliam died 



, and the picture is now in the Fitzwilliam museum at 



Cambridge. 



Rook's Nest, near Ryegate; H. Turner, Esq. An old 

 mansion, recently enlarged and beautified, standing in a de- 

 lightful park, with fine old woods; a large lake, and good 

 kitchen-gardens and hot-houses. 



The Rookery, near Dorking ; Fuller, Esq. Purchased 



in 1769, by Daniel Malthus, Esq. author of the translation of 

 Girardin Sur les Paysages, &c. from Abraham Tucker, Esq. of 

 Beechworth Castle, the celebrated author of The Light of 

 Nature pursued. Mr. Malthus took advantage of its beauties 

 of hill, dale, wood, and water, converted it into an elegant seat, 

 and sold it in 1768. 



Sherwood Lodge, near Battersea; J. Wolfe, Esq. The 

 house has received an elegant addition in the Gothic style; 

 the grounds of limited extent, but in liigh keeping. 



Shrub Hill, -near Dorking; Lord Leslie. A commodious 

 and pleasant villa. 



Streotham Park, near Streatham ; A. Atkins, Esq. The 

 grounds contain 100 acres, surrounded by a shrubbery and 

 gravel-walk, forming a circuit of two miles; the kitchen- 

 gardens remarkably extensive, and enclosed by a wall fourteen 

 feet high. 



St. Anne's Hi/1,- near Chertsey; Mrs. Fox. The gardens 

 and pleasure-grounds of moderate extent, but laid out with 

 much taste by the late eminent statesman, whose widow 

 now resides here. 



Tilburster Hill, near Godstone ; Alexander Mac Leay, Esq. 

 F.R.S. L.S. &c. The house on the south ride of a green hill 

 finely bosomed with trees, and looking across a rich vale, to 

 finely wooded hills beyond. The gardens and pleasure-grounds 

 small, but rich in American plants. 



West Iieechworth, near Dorking; H. Peters, Esq. An old 

 mansion, the grounds greatly enlarged and improved by the 

 present owner ; the old park remarkable for its noble timber ; 

 especially chestnuts, elms, and limes. 



Wolmrn Farm, near Chertsey ; Sir J. St. Aubin. A brick 

 house ; the grounds flat, but agreeably varied by a piece of 

 water ; hut chiefly remarkable from having been first planned 

 and laid out by the late P. Southcote, Esq., the inventor of the 

 ferme orne'e. To such a character they have now scarcely any 

 pretensions. 



7528. The mansions with demesnes, in Surrey, 

 are few compared with the number of villas. 



AshledPark, near Ryegate; Hon. F. G. Howard. An 

 elegant mansion, with magnificent stables, in a park of 140 

 acres, enclosed with a brick wall. 



Beddington, - near Croydon ; W. Gee, Esq. Celebrated 

 in the sixteenth century for its gardens, and for the first 

 orange-trees grown in England. The attention paid by Sir 

 Francis Carew to other plants as well as orange-trees, is proved 

 by his showing to Queen Elizabeth, who used frequently to 

 viiit him, a cherry-tree with ripe fruit, kept back a month 

 beyond the usual time. Over the whole tree he strained a 

 canvass, which was occasionally wetted ; by this means the 

 cherries grew large, and continued pale; when assured of the 

 queen's coming he removed the canvass, and a few sunny davs 

 brought them to their color. (Platt's Garden of Eden, 165.) Tlie 

 present mansion was erected about 1709 ; the park contains 

 some fine elms, is not varied nor very extensive. 



J. Gibson, in an account of the gardens near London, written 

 in 1691, says the orangery at Beddington was above 200 feet in 

 length ; that most of the trees were thirteen feet high, and that 

 the gardener had the year before gathered at least 10,000 

 oranges. The heir of the Carew family was then in his minority, 

 and the estate was let to the Duke of Norfolk. At present, 

 Richard Carew, Esq.is in possession of the estate, and the manor- 

 house is in the occupation of William Gee, Esq. his younger 

 brother. 



X Claremant, near Esher ; Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. 

 The park was chiefly planted _by Kent, for Pelham Earl of 



Clare) and afterwards 



of Newcastle, who built the pro- 



) ouiit tne pro- 

 spect tower and called it Clare (clear) -mount. After the Duke't 

 death, it was purchased by Lord Clive, who, when setting out 

 on his last voyage, gave directions to Brown to build a house, 

 without limiting him to expense. He performed the task to the 

 satisfaction of his employer, at a charge somewhat above 

 100,0001. It is a beautiful Corinthian building of freestone, an 

 oblong square open on all sides, the offices under ground, and 

 connected with the stables by a subterraneous communication. 

 The situation is well chosen, the execution good, and the in- 

 ternal arrangement unexceptionable. Brown had often altered 

 houses, but this house, and that of Crome, are the only in- 

 stances of his having erected new ones. The grounds want 

 water, and are rather deficient in distant prospect; but in 

 other respects they are singularly and beautifully varied, and 

 planted with the greatest taste. In the late Princess Charlotte's 

 time, government built a green-house on an eminence in a "very 

 bad style ; it is composed of large painted windows and fan 

 lights like an assemblage of shop fronts. A good collection of 

 plants is scattered among the hot-houses of the kitchen-garden, 

 which stand in need of renovation and reformation. 



Clandon Place, near Guildford; Earl of Onslow. A noble 

 mansion, by Leoni, built in 1731, the stables more recently by 

 Brown, who also laid out the grounds, and transformed a chalk- 

 pit into a rich scene of picturesque beauty. 



Cobham Park, Cobham ; H. C. Combe, Esq. A substan- 

 tial mansion, and ground of considerable beauty ; the kitchen- 

 garden well seen to, and the hot-houses in good condition. 



Eastwick House, near Leatherhead; J. Laurel, Esq. A 

 brick house, improved in design, and stuccoed by the present 

 proprietor, standing in a park of 400 acres. 



X Bn-ooc/.-near Merstham; Duke of Norfolk. A house 

 built by the late duke for an occasional residence. It stands in 

 a park of 600 acres, on the brow of an eminence, commanding 

 extensive views of the home grounds, which contain a piece of 

 water of sixty acres, and over the beautiful wooded heights of 

 Dorking, and the adjacent country. 



Gatton Park, near Ryegate; Sir M. Wood. A handsome 

 house in a park of considerable extent, much varied in surface, 

 and containing several detached pieces of water. 



Marsden Park, near Godstone; J. Hetsel, Esq. A good 

 house, delightfully situated in a valley, and mentioned by Evelyn 

 as being a noted improvement. 



Moor Park, near Farnham; Simpson, Esq. A large 



white house of simple architecture, in a park not very extensive, 

 but abounding in scenes beautifully romantic. This was formerly 

 the residence of Sir William Temple, who died here, and was 

 so attached to this retirement, that by his own directions his 

 heart was buried in a' silver box under the sundial in his 

 garden, opposite to a window from which he used to contem- 

 plate the landscape. 



Nonsuch Park, near Cheam ; S. Farmer, Esq. A part of 

 what was the park of the royal palace of Nonsuch, on which a 

 handsome Gothic mansion, by Wyatt, has been erected by the 

 present proprietor. 



The Oaks, -near Mitcham ; Earl of Derby. Originally an 

 alehouse, but greatly enlarged and improved by the present pro- 



