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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



CHAPTER VI.— HIGHMOUNT, GUILDFORD. 



Site and Views — Excavation of Chalk — Rose Garden — Planted Walls — Garden-houses — 



Colour Schemes — Framing the Views. 



HIGHMOUNT is one of the new houses standing on the chalk ridge that rises 

 immediately to the south-east of the town of Guildford. The ridge seems 

 to stand clear up into the sky, open to all the winds of heaven. The views, 

 embracing some of the finest points in West Surrey, are extremely extensive, and, 

 with the exception of one short section, are panoramic for more than three-fifths 

 of the horizon's circle. Eastward is St. Martha's Hill, church-crowned ; the horizon 

 is then cut by the bold promontory of the Chantry Woods on a spur of sandy hill. 

 The view then opens to its full extent, passing over the southern portion of Surrey, 

 then over the whole width of the wooded Weald of Sussex, to the dim, far line of the 

 South Downs. A little way to the west are the fine outlines of Blackdown and Hindhead, 



FIG. 55.— CIRCULAR TANK AND STEPS AT WEST END OF ROSE GARDEN. POINT OF VIEW "A' 



GENERAL PLAN (FIG. 56) 



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