Book I. 



GARDENS OF MONMOUTHSHIRE. 



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Sweet and Miller of Bristol, who are the most extensive garden-tradesmen in tJhe west of England. Miss 

 Wheeler has a nursery at Gloucester, which was founded by her father, the author of a Gardener's 

 Dictionary. 



7564. The following are villa-residences : 

 Blaize Cattle, near Bristol ; J. Harford, Esq. The house 



is an elegant Grecian design by Nash; the grounds are 

 recluse, well-wooded and highly beautiful. Not far distant 

 is a picturesque Tillage of thatched cottages, also from the 

 designs of Nash, the habitations of pensioners of the pro- 



Vr Bwiu Ayres, - near Pain wick ; B. Hyett, Esq. The house 

 is a handsome modem edifice, judiciously joined to woods, and 

 embellished bv new plantations. . . 



Cheltenham, Toiulvns, Esq. The gardener (Evans) has 

 formed a brick drain "along the front of his vine-border. This 

 drain is furnished with hopper funnels at each end, through 

 which liquid manure is supplied to the roots unaccompanied 

 by the unpleasant smells which are dispersed around when this 

 manure is poured on the surface. 



Prinknash, near Tewkesbury ; T. B. Howel, Esq. A low 

 Elizabethean house, on an elevated site, commanding extensive 

 prospects- Considerable improvements were made by the pre- 

 sent proprietor in 1S06. 



7565. Mansion and demesne residences. 

 Badmington House, Sudbury ; Duke of Beaufort. The 



house is an extensive building, on a French model, erected 

 in 16S2 ; the park is nine miles in circumference, intersected 

 by noble avenues. The gardens were celebrated in the first 

 duke's time ; but are at present rather neglected. 



Barnsley Park, near Biburv ; James Musgraxe, Esq. The 

 mansion is a sumptuous edifice, in the Italian style. The 

 park is three miles in circumference, and contains some exten- 

 sive plantations. 



X Barriitgton Hall, near Great Barrington ; Lord Dynevor. 

 The house is an elegant Doric structure; in the grounds 

 is a good specimen of a ferme ornie : the park is well wooded, 

 and three miles in circumference. 



Clear Well, near New lands ; T. Windham, Esq. A hand- 

 some mansion and plantations around it well disposed. 



Dyrham, near Sudbury ; W. Brathwayte, Esq. A hand- 

 some mansion, with a front of 150 feet, and a park of 500 acres. 



Dunstbourne AbboU, near North Cemey; Sir M. S. Pley- 

 dell. A villa on a singular plan, situated, on an eminence 

 distinguished for the beautv of its scenery. 



Gutting Park, near Withington ; Snell, Esq. The house 



is elegant and compact, and the grounds beautifully varied 



and well wooded. 



, Highmeadon; near Newnham ; Lord Gage. Anobleman- 



7566. WORCESTERSHIRE. A surface of 500,000 acres; hilly in many places, as at Malvern and 

 Broomsgrove, but in general low and very fertile, as in the Vale of Evesham. There are some good resi- 

 dences. The white onion is extensively grown near Evesham; asparagus and cucumbers for the Bir- 

 mingham market ; carrot-seed at Woolverley ; crab-stocks, and currants for their fruit, at Pershorej 

 from which place crab-pips are received by the London seedsmen. 



Blaekmore Park, near Malvern; T. Homyold, Esq. An outlines, tufted with lofty trees, or smiling with cultivation 



sion, in a bold situation, containing a fine bird's-eye view of 

 the village. 



Highnam Court, near Gloucester; Sir B- W. Guise. A 

 mansion by Inigo Jones ; an extensive park, and pleasure 



grounds, judiciously disposed. 



X King's Weston, near Clifton; Lady de Clifford. The 

 house, one of Vanburgh's best designs, in a situation rarely 

 equalled for beauty and grandeur. The park abounds in fine 

 oaks and elms ; the pleasure-grounds with American plants ; 

 and there are good kitchen and flower gardens. The views, 

 towards the Severn and the Avon, ravish the senses with their 

 grandeur and beauty, and render this place one of the finest in 

 the county. 



Lydney Park, near Lydney ; Rt. Hen. C B. Bathurst. An 

 old mansion, and near it some fine woods. 



X Oakley Grove, near Cirencester; Earl Bathurst. A 

 mansion in the old French style, amidst pines and other ever- 

 green trees. 



Rendcombe, near Ched worth, S. Barrington, Bishop of 

 Durham. The mansion is elegant and the park extensive, 

 abounding in wood, and furnishing fine prospects. 



Sherborne House, near Sherborne; Lord Sherborne. A 

 monasterial-like mansion of two quadrangles ; with two parks, 

 each between three and four miles in circumference. 



Southam House, near Cheltenham; T. B. de la Bere, Esq. 

 a venerable and far-famed mansion of Henry VIII. It is 

 of two stories, and more entire than almost any building of that 

 sera in England. The situation commands some fine pros- 

 pects in front, and is backed by old and picturesque woods. 



Stoke House, near Clifton; Dowager Duchess of Beaufort. 

 A spacious castellated house hi an extensive park, commanding 

 fine views along the Vale of Bristol. 



Stout's Hill, near Uley ; L. Baker, Esq. A handsome mo- 

 dem edifice with octagonal projections, turreted and orna- 

 mented in the pointed style, and surrounded by fine beech- 

 woods. 



Storcett, near Northleach; Lord Stowell. The house is on 

 an eminence, in a pleasant park of 100 acres, embellished by 

 well arranged plantations. 



Toddington House, near Toddington ; C H. Tracy, Esq. 

 A spacious Elizabethean building, with gardens and pleasure- 

 grounds in the modern style, and a park of 150 acres. 



Whitcombe Park, near Malvern; Sir W. Hicks. Situated 

 at the base of some commanding eminences, finely clothed with 

 beech-trees. 



WiUiamstrip, near Come. An elevated site, but the house 

 well sheltered by plantations- 



elegant modem building ; the park well wooded, but rather 

 too forma) a manner. 



X Croome Court, near Upton ; Earl of Coventry. Naturally 

 a dull flat place, but made what it is by Brown, who both 

 designed the house, and laid out the grounds. This place has 

 always been remarkable for the degree of neatness and order 

 in which it is kept. 



Dailsford, at Dailsford ; late the residence of 



Warren Hastings, Esq. A handUome house, in a commanding 

 situation; the grounds tastefully laid out, and a piece of 

 water formed ; but the design of the whole evidently incom- 

 plete. 



Gatcomb Park, near Minchinhampton ; David Ricardo, 

 Esq. A small place with a handsome house, beautifully dis- 

 posed grounds, and a good kitchen-garden. 



Hagley, near Broomsgrove; Lord Lyttelton. A square 

 house, with raised pavilions at the angles, in a park long cele- 

 brated for the beautiful undulations of its surface, and the 

 fine scattered groves and thickets of beech and other trees. 

 As a seat, however, it is deficient in having no pleasure-ground 

 or flower-garden scenery near the house. This must materially 

 lessen the comforts of its possessors in the winter months, who 

 muat cross the open park before they can get to gravel -paths 

 of any kind. The oriirinal dell of shrubbery and waterfalls, 

 formed by the first Lord Lyttelton and Shenstone, was denu- 

 dated some years ago, and only the timber-trees left. 



Ham Court, near L'pton ; J. Martin, Esq. An elegant 

 mansion, lately built, situated on a rising lawn, studded with 

 plantations in an elegant style of improvement. 



Hanbury Hall, near Droitwich; J. Phillips, E;q. A fine 

 old mansion, dated 1710, full of large windows (the window 

 tax being then unknown), with every thing comfortable within, 

 and surrounded by a well-wooded park of 150 acres. 



Hen-ell Grange, near Broomsgrove; Earl Plymouth. A 

 very extensive house, dated 1712, in the midst of a pleasant 

 park, with hills gently swelling, and a lake of about 50 acres. 

 The plantations "arc extensive, and abound with oaks, in various 

 stages of growth. 



Kyre Wyre, near Tenbury ; Pytts, Esq. An elegant 



mansion, in a highly picturesque park, through which runs 

 a rapid stream ; the distant views, like all those in this part of 

 the country, very picturesque, from its broken and undulating 



and enlivened by the meandering course of the Wye. 



Let Castle, near Kidderminster; J. Knight, Esq. Re- 

 markable for its kitchen-gardens and lofty hot-houses for 

 fruiting rare exotics, and in which the lee-chee ripened its fruit 

 in lS19,for the first time in England. 



Madresfietd (Motherstield), near Malvern; Lord Beau- 

 champ. A baronial castle modernised, surrounded by a fine 

 extent of lawn and plantations. 



Northn-ick, near Broadway ; Lord Northwick. An ancient 

 house, modernised, with an extensive and well planted park. 



Ombersley Court, near Worcester ; Marchioness of Down- 

 shire. A mansion recently much improved, in the midst of a 

 park, flat but extensive, and bordered by the Severn. 



Stamford Court, nearSlodon; Sir T. Winnington. A com- 

 modious and substantial house, situated in an ample park, con- 

 taming two large pieces of water; the whole rather deficient 

 in plantations. 



Thorn Grove, near Worcester; Lamotte, Esq. A 



plain mansion on an eminence, with an extensive lawn and 

 serpentine lake, bordered with thriving plantations. 



Tickenhill, at Bewdley ; Ingram, Esq. A delight- 

 fully situated house, in a well wooded park, commanding fine 

 wild views over a dell to Wyre fore^. Through the indul- 

 gence of the possessor, it is used by the inhabitants of Bewdley 

 as a public promenade. 



Whitby Court, near Stockton; Lord Foley. A newly 

 improved and improving seat, which, when the plantations are 

 grown up, will be truly magnificent. 



Westsmoed House, near Droitwich; Sir J. Packington. A 

 fine old Elizabethean mansion, surrounded by garden-courts, 

 flanked by towers and other architectural appendages. It 

 stands on an eminence in a very extensive park, much varied 

 in surface, and with extensive oak-groves, commencing at a 

 certain distance from the house, and extending outwards like 

 the gores of a circle, leaving large avenues between. There is 

 a piece of water of sixty acres, and situations where other 

 pieces might be formed. 



Winterdyne, near Bardley ; Moseley , Esq . A most 



elegant villa on a hill, embowered in deep tufted shades, covered 

 in some places with ivy, and surrounded with ornamented 

 walks interspersed withGothic seats, towers, and hermitages, 

 and displaying fine views of the Severn and its banks. 



75G7. MONMOUTHSHIRE A surface of 340,000 acres; hilly, romantic, rich in pasture and wood- 

 lands ; abounding in ruined castles, and containing some picturesque seats. The Vale of Usk in this 

 county, like that of Chvyd in North Wales, and Montgomery, presents the finest scenery in Wales. 



Uaherth House, near Llanerth; T. Jones, Esq. A good 

 house, by Nash, and agreeable grounds, with a piece of 

 water, laid out by Lappige. 



Uantvern House, near Newport; late Sir Robert Salisbury, 

 Bart. A handsome brick house, on an eminence, surrounded 

 by plantations, chiefly by Sir R. Salisbury, the late proprietor. 



IHercefteld, near "Chepstow ; N. Wells, Esq. An elegant 

 house of freestone; the grounds extensive, celebrated: by 

 tourists for their romantic walks and views along a precipice 



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washed by the Wye, and described bv Wheatlev in Observ. 

 alums. The place owes its celebrity to Valentine Morris, 

 Esq. who began to improve it about 1 740. 



Ponlypocl'Park, near Pontypool; C. H. Leigh, Esq. A 

 substantial mansion, with most romantic grounds, well fur- 

 ni>hed with wood, water, rocks, some ornamental buildings 

 and excellent views. 



Tredegar Park, near Abergavennv; Sir C G. Morgan. A 

 substantial brick mansion of the time" of Charles II. ; the park 



